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From The President

As the creator of Saturday Night Live, Lorne Michaels, once reputedly said, If you are the smartest person in the room then you are in the wrong room!

Dear Catawba Family,

One of the great benefits of a college experience is being surrounded – and challenged – by bright, creative, and interesting people of all backgrounds and experiences. Catawba’s Honors Program is one of our key vehicles for attracting students and faculty who seek these kinds of experiences. The impact on these individuals and the campus as a whole is significant.

In the pages of this edition of CAMPUS, you will read about MindBodySoul: Catawba’s Campaign for Growth and the manifold ways in which we are seeking to enhance the College and what it can offer our students. The Honors Program is a vital element of that and I am thrilled to advise you that visionary and generous donors have created a $2 million endowment to sustain and expand it. These same generous and anonymous friends have already made a huge difference through a gift for the Honors program in our previous campaign. What kind of a difference?

n Enrollment in Honors Courses has more than doubled in the past seven years from less than 100 to over 200;

n Honors students are presenting their original research at regional and national conferences, winning awards and recognition for their work;

n Honors students who travel domestically or internationally as part of their Honors courses have grown from fewer than 20 to nearly 70 in the past seven years;

n Spaces dedicated to the Honors Program have been established in residence halls (Hurley and S-R) and academic areas (Hedrick); and

n The number of students graduating with Honors has grown from three in 2013 to 10 in 2018.

These numbers alone are compelling evidence of the impact a gift can have on students’ experiences at Catawba and how we can prepare them for a complex and dynamic world. Of course, the intangible opportunities are equally or more important in developing these young people to be leaders in their professions and communities. Attracting more of them starts with sharing their stories with friends, neighbors, and total strangers. Catawba’s growth – both in numbers and in quality of opportunities – depends on you!

Many thanks to these generous supporters who have enabled Catawba to make such progress – I hope they will inspire others to find their own ways to grow and sustain the College for generations to come.

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Homecoming and Campaign Kick-Off Weekend 2018 saw a huge number of alumni, family members and friends back on campus this year.

Signature events for the weekend included the Mind, Body, Soul: Catawba’s Campaign for Growth Kick-Off Celebration, an all-campus Homecoming Networking Social, Class Reunion Events for 1968, 1978, 2008 and 2018, Special Recognition and Events for Athletic Teams including 1988 Football, 1998 Men’s Soccer, 1998 Women’s Soccer, and Volleyball, the annual Homecoming Golf Tourna- ment & Fundraiser at the Revival Golf Course at the Crescent, the Blue Masque Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony & Reception, Football vs. Tusculum University (a big win for Catawba!), and the Alumni Awards Ceremony & Brunch.

Enjoy the photos, relive the memories, and mark your calendar to join us next year – October 25-27, 2019.

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Four Receive Distinguished Alumni Awards Saturday, October 20th during Homecoming Weekend Activities. Those recognized included Allan Robert Autry ’08 of Raleigh, recipient of the Young Alumni Award for Career Development; John D. Balls ’70 of Charlotte, recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award for Career Achievement; Marvin T. Moore ’99 of Concord, recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award for Service; and Robin Tynes-Miller ’12 of Charlotte, recipient of the Young Alumni Award for Service.

These awards are given annually by Catawba’s Alumni Association to individuals who have served their community, distinguished themselves at different phases of their professional careers, and have also served the Catawba College community.

Allan Robert Autry ’08 is a CPA and the youngest Tax Principal at served as a mentor for students and young professionals in various Johnson Lambert, LLP, the fifth largest accounting firm to insurance industry ministries at his church. in the country. He is married to wife Greta. A native of Fayetteville, N.C., Allan majored in Accounting while an undergraduate at Catawba and was a member of the College Golf Team. Marvin Moore ’99 is employed by the Rowan-Salisbury Public Schools Recognized for his academic success while a student, Allan served as as Principal of Isenberg Elementary School. Junior Marshal and was a member of the Philomathean Society. While a student at Catawba, Moore was a standout basketball player After graduating from Catawba, he earned his Master of Accounting who earned his degree in physical education. His achievements on the court degree, magna cum laude, from N.C. State University’s Poole College of earned him many accolades, including three-time All-Conference Player; Management. four-time champion – on the team that won two Conference Championships A member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and two Conference Tournament Championships; All American, Conference (AICPA), the North Carolina Association of CPAs, and the Insurance Player of the Year; Conference Athlete of the Year; and Conference Hall of Accounting & Systems Association (IASA), Allan is a regular presenter Fame member. He was the only player in Conference history to have 1500 at regional and national insurance industry conferences on tax and points, 500 rebounds, 500 assists, and 200 steals. He holds the record as workplace issues. Recent talks include “Managing a Multigenerational Catawba’s all time steals leader in a game, a single season, and in his career. Work Force: Unleashing Its Potential,” and “State Taxes: The Unknown He served as Catawba’s assistant men’s basketball coach for 10 years Frontier.” He also authors articles for clients to help them better understand and help lead the squad to three conference tournament championships tax law, and his recent works include: “The Impact of the Tax Reform Act and three conference championships. He still continues to mentor for Property and Casualty Insurers” for the PIAA Inside Medical Liability Catawba’s male basketball players. publication, and “Trump Tax Reform” for the IASA E-Interpreter. After his Catawba graduation, Marvin earned his master’s degree Allan met his wife, the former Meagen Kittle, also a member of the from Gardner-Webb University and is currently pursuing his doctorate Class of 2008, while both were Catawba students. She is employed as from Wingate University. Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs at William Peace University and Teaching In the community, Marvin is active in several volunteer organizations Assistant Professor at N.C. State University College of Engineering. The two including Dream on 3, Food for Thought, and the Crosby Scholars. are parents of daughter Rowan Meadow Autry and the family lives in Raleigh. He has been honored as a finalist for Rowan County Principal of the Year and as the Salisbury area Community Principal. John D. Balls ’70 of Charlotte is a former Vice President and Chief In- Married to wife Jessica, the couple makes their home in Concord formation Officer for AT&T/Lucent Technologies, Inc., and a retired educator. and are parents of daughters Sydni, Maliya, and Londyn, and son Marvin “M.J.” Marvin is a native of Ahoskie, N.C., and the son of Helen Hurd. After graduating from Catawba with a degree in Business Management, John earned his Master of Science degree in Finance from Benjamin Franklin University (now George Washington University), an M.B.A. in Management Robin Tynes-Miller ’12 is the Founder and Artistic Director of Three and Finance from Fairleigh Dickenson University, and his master’s and Bone Theatre, and Analytics Manager for Children’s Theatre of Charlotte. doctorate degrees from Gardner-Webb University. He also graduated from A native of Black Mountain, N.C., Robin came to Catawba as a Cornell University’s Executive Leadership Program and from Massachusetts transfer student, majoring in Musical Theatre and earning a Bachelor Institute of Technology’s Executive Program in Technology. of Fine Arts degree. While a student, she distinguished herself academically. While a student at Catawba, John was honored as Student of the She was tapped to serve as a Junior Marshal, inducted into Phi Epsilon, Month and inclusion in Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities. served as Blue Masque President between 2011 and 2012, and was a He also served as a Junior Marshal at the College. member of Alpha Psi Omega, the Theatre Arts Honor Society. She was After a long career with AT&T/Lucent Technologies, Inc., N.J., where Improv Team Captain, an Irene Ryan Semi-Finalist for 2012, and the John held several strategic positions between 1971 and 2000, he began a recipient of the Augustin Daly Award. Popular with her fellow students, career as an educator. He served as an instructor in the Charlotte-Mecklen- she was also a member of the Homecoming Court. burg Schools between 2000 and 2003, then worked in the Stanly County While a Catawba undergrad, she met fellow theatre arts alumna Schools first as a vice principal at West Stanly High, and then as a high Carmen Bartlett ’10 and developed a close friendship. The two discussed school principal at Stanly Early College between 2006 and 2010. Thereaf- their shared dream of establishing a small, non-profit theatre in North ter, he joined Gardner-Webb University, serving as director of the Center for Carolina and actually realized that dream when they established Three Innovative Leadership Development between 2012 and 2016, as coordinator Bone Theatre in Charlotte in 2012. The name of their theatre company of the Doctorate of Education in Organization Leadership Program between comes from Reba McEntire quote: “To succeed in life: you need a 2014 and 2016, and as assistant professor in the School of Education there wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.” Through Three Bone, Robin between 2013 and 2016. John continues to serve Gardner-Webb University and her colleague have established a company that serves as a catalyst as an adjunct faculty member in the School of Education. for hope, strength and humor throughout society. Three Bone Theatre John has numerous publications to his credit and has been honored was recognized in 2017 by the North Carolina Theatre Conference with with various awards throughout his career, including the Albert Nelson its George A. Parides Professional Theatre Company of the Year Award. Marquis Lifetime Achievement Honoree Award in 2018, and the North Recently married to husband Scott Tynes-Miller, the two make their Carolina New Schools Innovator of the Year Award in 2010. He has home in Charlotte. served on the board of directors for the local Boys & Girls Club, and has

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Blue Masque Hall of Fame Inducts Four Successful Theatre Practitioners

Four accomplished theatre professionals were inducted into the Blue Masque Hall of Fame on October 19 during the College’s 2018 Homecoming Weekend activities. Inductees were David R. Latham, professional lighting designer, master electrician, and technical director; 1925 Mia Self, current director of acting, directing, and academics at North Carolina State University; Linda Kesler, former Catawba College Professor of Theatre Education and Theatre Management; and David Pulliam, long-time Catawba College Professor of Scene Design and Visual Art.

David R. Latham Mia Self has worked in technical the- is a 1992 Catawba theatre atre with theatre, dance, music arts graduate. Also holding and opera companies for the an M.F.A. in directing from past 32 years. A 1986 theatre the University of Mississippi, arts graduate from Catawba Self has worked as a College, Latham’s technical professional actor, playwright, theatre expertise and design director, and college professor. work have won acclaim in America and abroad.

Linda Kesler David Pulliam holds the 1983 B.A. in has been a member of theatre and B.S. in business the Catawba Theatre Arts administration from Catawba Department faculty since College. Also the recipient 1986. With an M.F.A. of an M.F.A. degree in arts in theatre design from the administration from Virginia University of Alabama, Polytechnic Institute, Kesler Pulliam has designed has worked professionally scenery for over 50 plays in both theatre education at Catawba. and theatre management.

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Opening Convocation 2018 President Brien Lewis leads first-year students through a welcoming line of faculty, staff, and students following Opening Convocation.

Catawba Awards Degrees to 305 at Commencement Exercises Read all about it at Catawba.edu/graduation

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Two Young Alumni, Both Military Officers, Establish the “NOT FOR SELF, BUT COUNTRY” SCHOLARSHIP

Christian Crifasi Spencer Preston

Catawba College students who want to pursue join the military. I have grandfathers, cousins and good friends who have served and it was always in the back of my mind. Once I met with all of a career as an officer in one of the branches of the branches and all of the recruiters, I figured the Navy was best for me.”

the United States Armed Forces can apply for a Crifasi majored in Business Administration with a concentration in new scholarship to help them do so. Interested Economics and ran Cross Country at Catawba. He started Officer Candidate School in Newport, R.I. several months after he graduated, students can apply to be considered each year in August 2013, and received his commission in November 2013. for a $1,000 award from the Non Sibi Sed Patriae His first operational tour was onboard USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) where he served form July 2014 to August 2016. (Not for Self, for Country) Annual Scholarship. Preston held several jobs, including employment as an Admissions Two 2013 Catawba College alumni and close friends who established Counselor at Catawba, a part-time fire-fighter position with the Salisbury this scholarship are both supply officers in their respective military Fire Department, work for “The Wonderful Company,” and a position with branches. Christian Crifasi serves in the U.S. Navy as a Supply Corps Quality Cabinets and Counters in fabrication and installation of countertops/ Officers at NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center San Diego in San Diego, cabinets, before he began his journey on the yellow footprints at Officer Calif., while Spencer Preston is a Marine Officer holding the position Candidate School (OCS) in September of 2016. He completed OCS in No- as a Supply/Fiscal/Logistics Officer with Marine Wing Support vember 2016 earning his commission with the United States Marine Corps. Squadron 271 at Marine Corps Air Station in Cherry Point, N.C. “When I first graduated from Catawba, Christian wanted me to join the “There isn’t a lot of exposure for the military while you’re attending Navy, but I didn’t. Later when I felt ready to serve, I started to solicit the College and that is comparable to having only one-track in mind,” different branches. Remember, there’s an enlisted path and there’s an Preston, an Exercise Science major and a four-year varsity soccer officers path. When I called other branches, they were telling me what player at Catawba, explains. “A lot of people feel the call to serve, but they could do for me, but when I called the Marine Corps, they asked no one puts it on the plate for them. You have to commit to the service. me if I had what it takes,” Preston recalls. “Basic School for Officers is very physical and very mentally demanding. As challenging as it is, it is meant to be horrible. My older brother, who served as a Marine from 1991-1995, We’re not looking for applications, we are looking for had told me the Marine Corps was a culture, more than just a branch commitments. The college itself is a college based on of the armed forces; I have found that to be true.” service. At the end of the day, Catawba College is a Crifasi describes himself and Preston as “pretty blessed to be where we are right now,” and believes the scholarship is an appropriate way to pay unique experience, and it’s not for everybody, just like it forward to current and future Catawba students. “Hopefully, we can provide some guidance for students who want to pursue a career as a the service, it’s not for everybody. But if we can facilitate commissioned officer in one of the branches of the U.S. Armed Forces.” a connection between interested students by being Catawba students who want to apply to be considered for the Non Sibi available to talk to them about serving, it opens the Sed Patriae Annual Scholarship are asked to write a brief essay answer- ing the following questions: “Understanding that this line of work comes hatch for their consideration to answer the call. with inherent risk, including the potential loss of life, why do you want to – Spencer Preston be a commissioned officer in one of the branches of the Armed Forces? Why not enter into the civilian workforce after graduation?”

Crifasi echoes Preston’s sentiments saying, “I definitely have a different Completed essays with an applicant’s contact information should be perspective since I’ve joined. What got me started was the desire to serve; submitted to Catawba College’s Chaplain and Senior Vice President especially growing up in a small town (Coleridge, N.C.) where so many Dr. Kenneth W. Clapp, a mentor and friend to Crifasi and Preston, by August 1st so the scholarship award can be made before the 8 start of each academic year.

Catawba Campus Shines Thanks to Significant Renovations

If you haven’t been to Catawba College’s campus in while, consider stopping by to see the significant renovations that have taken place and those that are still underway. The College has raised over $13 million in grants and restricted gifts over the last year which have allowed for improvements benefitting many areas central to Catawba’s student experience.

“These improvements helped to both improve and enhance Catawba’s classic, 43-building, 276-acre campus and provide great financial support to address current and future needs of the College,” said Catawba’s Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President.

The monies raised allowed work on a number of projects to begin “Many returned from the summer and, and in some cases, complete over the summer. In the circa 1925 Hedrick Administration building, there has been significant to find a significantly improved work taking place across a wide range of areas. This included the campus, with enhancements to stabilization of brickworks, renovations of classrooms and offices, building interiors and grounds,” new flooring in several areas, renovated rest rooms, and fresh paint explained Frannie Taylor, Catawba’s and carpeting throughout the building. Offices were also rearranged Director of Facilities Operations and to allow for more convenient access by students. The Admissions Project Administration. and Financial Aid offices are now located in close proximity to the relocated offices of the Registrar, the Business Office, Supplemental We are so pleased that Instruction, Tutoring, Academic AccessAbility, and Testing. The area on Hedrick’s first floor formerly occupied by the Registrar is now home the college was the to Internships, Career Services, and Catawba to Career (C2C).

recipient of significant Elsewhere on campus, new carpet and paint were installed in the donor gifts to make Cannon Student Center, while Hoke Hall had demolition work on its third floor that will provide an additional 1,600 square feet these improvements of multipurpose space. Hoke also received new carpet on its possible. We are happy second and third floors. to say, ‘Welcome back In the Omwake-Dearborn Chapel, a new boiler was installed. In the Heath Hill Alumni House, a new HVAC system was installed. to a refreshed Catawba.’ Boarding students on campus will benefit from new HVAC systems installed in Salisbury-Rowan Residence Hall, Stanback Residence Hall, and Woodson Residence Hall. In the five upper class residence halls in Abernethy Village, all of the showers were replaced. New paint was completed in Salisbury-Rowan Residence Hall, while the five largest residence halls on campus – Salisbury-Rowan, Woodson, Stanback, Ruth Richards, Barger-Zartman, and Hollifield – received new room furniture. New lobby furniture was also placed in Stanback Residence Hall and Woodson Residence Halls

Summer improvements and renovations on Catawba’s campus also included retrofitting the 1954 Corriher-Linn-Black Library from a repository for books into a collaboratory for students. Most books in the library’s collection are now available digitally and the spaces which housed the tomes are now interdisciplinary, collaborative spaces for project-based learning. New carpet plus moveable furniture, including stackable chairs, moveable tables, laptops, and multiple display screens, foster an environment of experimentation, innovation, and discovery. A new boiler was also installed in the library during these summer renovations.

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“Stage 1 of the interior library renovation Across campus, installation of energy efficient project is complete, and the Corrher-Linn- lighting fixtures and conversion of fluorescent Black library is open for business,” Earl Givens, to LED lights was completed, allowing the Catawba’s Director of Library Services, College to both realize a significant reduction announced in an email he sent to the in utility costs and more fully demonstrate its campus at the start of the new academic commitment to sustainability and eliminating year. “With the fall semester upon us, it was its carbon footprint by 2030. This included the imperative that the largest renovation stage replacement of over 4,000 fixtures with LEDs. be completed first. However, everyone should Centralized computer control of HVAC system stay tuned for more exciting changes as we on campus was also enhanced for another continue to transform our library over the reduction in utility costs. course of this school year.” The campus grounds also enjoyed significant A number of technology improvements took improvements over the summer as interior place including the upgrade of a computer improvements were underway. The College lab in the Hedrick Administration Building tree canopy was raised with significant tree with new equipment and the implementation removal and pruning. Perennials were planted of new technology in several classrooms. in beds, and all-season, self-watering planters Most classrooms on campus are now replaced existing planters across campus. equipped with a dedicated wireless access A new stone wall with stair access to Heath point, a new high-resolution laser projector, Hill Alumni House was constructed in the 200 and a sound system that supports both block of Summit Avenue using natural stone wired and wireless audiovisual presentations. selected to blend with other two adjacent retaining walls. A pedestrian pathway was All campus computer labs are equipped created between Abernethy Village and with new Windows or Apple computers, and Abernethy Physical Education Center that a all full-time faculty are equipped with a new lso solved drainage challenges in the area. Windows or Apple laptop. A large presentation space in the Center for the Environment has The remainder of the multi-million dollar reno- been equipped with new audiovisual technol- vations will occur throughout the 2018-2019 ogy as well as lecture capture technology so academic year and include a roof replacement that guest speaker presentations can easily for the Shuford Science Building, new drainage be made available online. During the day, this and bathrooms in the Florence Busby-Corriher multi-purpose space becomes three separate Theatre Arts Annex, engineering and stabiliza- classrooms, one of which can also be used for tion of stairs and final renovations of restrooms lecture capture that integrates directly into the in the Administration building. Ketner School of College’s learning management system. Business remain offline as work is taking place for a total replacement of the HVAC system, Coming soon, students will be able to check roof repairs and interior enhancements. out a new Windows laptop, with just a swipe of their student id card, from a laptop kiosk “I earned my undergraduate degree from that will be available to them in the Student Catawba and have been affiliated with the Center 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. With college as a neighbor and as a trustee for a a scan of their student id card, students also number of years, and I can say quite candid- have 24 by 7 access to printing, copying, ly that the grounds and campus have never and scanning in the Student Center. looked more beautiful. Our campus buildings have never been in such good shape as they In the Athletics area, a resurfaced track are right now or will become after this around Kirkland Field in Shuford Stadium extensive campus renovation effort,” said was one of several projects completed over Catawba College Chair of the Board of the summer. In Abernethy Physical Education Trustees Bill Graham ’83. “We are deeply Center, renovations included new branding grateful to our benefactors for their ongoing graphics, and renovation of a downstairs commitment to Catawba College. Their gifts weight-lifting area to adapt it for reuse as a have helped us enhance and upgrade facilities teaching/learning space for Exercise Science that support new and growing academic students. In Newman Park, the baseball programs, including Nursing, Health Sciences stadium, some drainage and grading was and Business, and create spaces completed to help reduce water issues on campus geared affecting the playing field; this was a collab- specifically toward orative effort the City of Salisbury engineers. today’s students.” The baseball project utilized a green initiative erosion protection product, FLEXAMAT.

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Alumni Couple Establishes Scholarship to Pay Forward Their Catawba Experience

Alumni Dorothy Crunkilton Brown ’59 and Gary R. Brown ’60 have established an endowed scholarship at their alma mater.

Earnings from the $25,000 scholarship will be awarded annually to a student recipient with outstanding grades, who might not otherwise have the financial means to afford a college education.

Dorothy, who always went by Dottie, had a office in Atlanta as sales manager. He spent the marvelous career at Catawba. She graduated majority of his career working for the Silicon Valley cum laude and was also selected to Who’s Who entity that was very much involved in the early days in American Universities and Colleges, Miss of hi-tech. He rose through the ranks and was Catawba, Homecoming Queen, and a member promoted to Eastern Regional Manager with of Kappa Tau Kappa. She was a cheerleader responsibility for the New York, Washington, D.C., for three years and Chief Cheerleader during Atlanta, and Dallas offices. her senior year. She served for three years as chairman of and performer at May Day activities, While Dottie was on the tennis court, Gary was and during her senior year, she was on the May on the golf course. Over the years, he won a club Court. She also served on the Student Judicial championship and a senior club championship. Board and the Student Government Association’s In 1966, he made a run at the U.S. Amateur, Senate. She wrote for the “Sayakini” (yearbook) but failed to qualify. and “The Pioneer” (school newspaper). Cindy, Dottie and Gary’s oldest daughter, is an After graduating from Catawba, Dottie taught estate planning attorney. Their daughter, Laura, and second grade for several years until the couple’s her husband, have their own public relations and daughters were born. She then became the media business, SimsCommunication.com. Grand- stay-at-home mom until the girls finished high daughter Kate, a University of Virginia graduate was school and were off to college. Dottie then went recently selected for Law Review at Scalia School of back to teaching in a private academy and helped Law at George Mason University. Granddaughters ready young children for first grade. Although she Sarah and Maggie attend Mount Vernon Presbyte- had always played a lot of tennis, Dottie became rian School in Atlanta. Sarah and Maggie are also serious about the game after their daughters outstanding students and into all kinds of activities were grown, and she won five Atlanta Doubles such as basketball, softball, music, golf, cross Championships. In 1977, she was selected as country, and art. New Neighbor of the Year for metro Atlanta. Dottie and Gary reside in the northern suburbs Gary was a Business major and a starting guard of Atlanta in Roswell. For the past 16 years, they on the football team; he also led Catawba’s have spent their winters in New Smyrna Beach, Fla. conference in punting. After graduation, he Dottie has three brothers retired there and her sister, worked a short stint a Dan River Mills, and then Peggy Crunkilton ’67, and husband Thomas join the joined Potomac Electric Power for 10 years, ulti- group for the winter. mately becoming the manager of the Accounting Department there. In 1973, he joined Xidex Corp Dottie is a native of Arlington, Va., and Gary is as a sales representative, eventually opening an from Mt. Airy, N.C.

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U.S. News rankings & World Report’s Best Colleges & recognitions Catawba College maintains its #4 position among the Best Regional Colleges in the South, according to the 2018 edition of “Best Colleges,” published by U.S.News & World Report.

We’re very The Princeton Review’s Best Colleges proud to Catawba College is again cited as one of the nation’s best colleges be ranked in The Princeton Review Best 384 Colleges guide 2019 edition. as one of Forbes’ America’s Top Colleges the best Catawba is once again listed among the North Carolina public and private institutions included in Forbes’ “America’s Top Colleges 2018,” colleges of on their list of the 650 best undergraduate colleges. This is the eighth our type in consecutive year that Catawba has been named a top college by Forbes. the nation. Forbes’ Grateful Grads Index For six years running, Catawba is in North - President Brien Lewis one of only four institutions Carolina making the Top 100 list in Forbes’ Grateful Graduates Index 2018. The other N.C. institutions were Duke University, Wake Forest University, and Davidson College. The Index ranks the best long-term value, or return-on-investment (ROI) of the top private, not-for profit colleges enrolling with more than 500 students

N.C.’s Best Value Colleges Catawba is ranked 19th among private colleges in N.C. as one of the 30 best value colleges and universities in the state in 2018 by Online Communications’ BestValueSchools.com.

2017 Catawba graduates had jobs or were enrolled College Consensus Ranking of Best in graduate school within one year of graduation Colleges in North Carolina 2018 College Consensus.com included Catawba College at #16 among N.C.’s best colleges, ahead of Queens, UNCC and others.

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Top Colleges for Biology Majors Catawba was ranked 6th among the Top Colleges for Biology Majors in North Carolina, according to Zippia. ext- ended Best Psychology Degrees Catawba was ranked among the most affordable small colleges state for a psychology degree in the U.S. by Best Psychology Degrees. reach The Princeton Review’s Green Colleges Catawba is one of the country’s most environmentally responsible colleges, 1959 according to The Princeton Review. Catawba was named again to The Princeton Review’s 2018 Green Colleges. volunteers spanning nearly Challenge lasted Washington Monthly’s College Guide and Rankings Washington Monthly magazine released its 2018 College Guide and Rankings Months and Catawba College is included in that publication’s baccalaureate college Class rankings. Catawba is one of the institutions the magazine cites as delivering the “Best Bang for the Buck.” alumni, parent, & friend Creative Colleges volunteers In the 2017 edition of “Creative Colleges,” Catawba College is again 188 included as one of the college options for all arts majors across the board. This guidebook contends that students are 100% unique, and their college should be too. 13

Catawba receives $1 million grant to support clergy in leadership development

Catawba College has received a grant of $1 million to help establish the Catawba Clergy Network Program that will support clergy in leadership development. It is part of Lilly Endowment Inc.’s Thriving in Ministry, an initiative that supports a variety of religious organizations across the nation as they create or strengthen programs that help pastors build relationships with experienced clergy who can serve as mentors and guide them through key leadership challenges in congregational ministry.

Catawba College’s program will focus on college professional development and that’s where our program alumni who are members of the clergy in the United comes into play. We will help create opportunities for clergy Church of Christ, as well as clergy from other denom- leadership development and hope to facilitate mentor relation- inations. The $1 million grant will be used during a ships where seasoned clergy are tapped to help new clergy.” Shannon five-year period, with $200,000 allocated each year Axtel Martin, for staffing dedicated to program development, work- Catawba College is one of 78 organizations located in 29 lead writer for latest shop offerings, conference development and atten- states that is taking part in the initiative. The organizations Lilly grant. dance costs, speakers, accommodations, and travel. reflect diverse Christian traditions: mainline and evangelical, Catawba College Chaplain and Senior Vice President Protestant, Roman Catholic and Orthodox. the Reverend Dr. Kenneth Clapp believes Catawba’s planned program offerings will provide enrichment Thriving in Ministry is part of Lilly Endowment’s grantmaking and growth opportunities for clergy who need to strengthen pastoral leadership in Christian congregations targeted assistance in carrying out their managerial in the United States. This has been a grantmaking priority at responsibilities as a leader of a church congregation. Lilly Endowment for nearly 25 years.

“Clergy depart divinity school well-versed in biblical “Leading a congregation today is multi-faceted and exception- studies, but often lacking in knowledge of how to ally demanding,” said Christopher L. Coble, Lilly Endowment’s raise funds for their churches, manage a congrega- vice president for religion. “When pastors have opportunities tional budget, or how to deal with modern issues to build meaningful relationships with experienced colleagues, Dr. Kenneth facing congregants,” Clapp explained. “I see Catawba’s they are able to negotiate the challenges of ministry and their Clapp program as a way to help our clergy grow as leaders of leadership thrives. These promising programs, including the a congregation while assisting them in navigating their Catawba Clergy Network Program, will help pastors develop way through both the business and psychological sides these kinds of relationships, especially when they are in the of their work. Often new clergy have no funding for midst of significant professional transitions.”

Lilly Endowment Inc. is an Indianapolis-based private philanthropic foundation created in 1937 by three members of the Lilly family - J.K. Lilly Sr. and sons Eli and J.K. Jr. - through gifts of stock in their pharmaceutical business, Eli Lilly & Company. While those gifts remain the financial bedrock of the Endowment, the Endowment is a separate entity from the company, with a distinct governing board, staff and location. In keeping with the founders’ wishes, the Endowment supports the causes of com- munity development, education and religion. The Endowment maintains a special commitment to its hometown, Indianapolis, and its home state Indiana. Its grantmaking in religion focuses on supporting efforts to strengthen the leadership and vitality of Christian congregations throughout the country and to increase the public’s understanding of the role of religion in public life.

In Tune Monthly recommends colleges and universities Catawba students have the opportunity to study with top music recognized for the strength of their music studies programs faculty. They include saxophonist Adrian Crutchfield (a member of Prince’s New Power Generation), North Carolina Music Hall to college-bound students. This year’s edition shines a special of Fame inductee Dolph Ramseur (manager of the Avett Brothers), spotlight on seven institutions, one of them being Catawba. and award-winning songwriter Dennis Reed.

“We’re proud to be honored for a tenth year,” notes Dr. David Lee This fall brought with it the addition of roots master Jeff Little to Fish, Director of Popular Music at the Salisbury, North Carolina Catawba’s popular music faculty. He serves as Artist-in-Residence school. “It recognizes the achievements of our entire music for the school and Director of its music business concentration. department and inspires us to aim ever higher.” Little tours internationally with the Jeff Little Trio and was one of the closest musical associates of Appalachian legend Doc Watson. Most of Catawba’s music majors pursue studies in popular music, with the school drawing talented students from as far away as For more information about Popular Music and Music Business, California and New York. They study the performance of popular contact Dr. David Lee Fish at [email protected]. music in a variety of styles, as well as songwriting, audio recording, and the business of music.

The most talented Catawba students go on to successful careers in the music industry upon graduation. Some even find success be- fore they graduate. For example, the debut album by senior Dustin Chapman reached #51 on iTunes when it was released last year.

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Shannon Axtell Martin ’08 became the new Lilly Center for director of the Catawba College Theology Institute, “DISCOVER,” in late January. She will be responsi- Vocation and Values ble for putting together the faculty for the Institute, hiring, training and supervising interns from the Hires Two participating colleges that staff the Institute, and recruiting and screening each summer’s “Discover” During 2018, the Lilly Center for participants. Vocation and Values expanded its Axtell Martin majored in Religion and Philosophy staff in ways that promise great with an Outdoor Ministries concentration and minored in Psychology while benefits for Catawba students and a student at Catawba. She earned her Master of Divinity degree from Wake Forest University School of Divinity in 2011. faculty and staff as well. Two positions, made possible by special funding Her employment experiences include Regional Coordinator for Partners in Health and Wholeness, an initiative of the North Carolina Council of Church- from grants and an endowment, were es; Interim Associate Pastor for Contemporary Worship for Guilford College filled by recent Catawba alumni and United Methodist Church; Chaplain Resident at Wake Forest Baptist Health; both will report to Catawba Chaplain Retreat Planner for First Baptist Church; Residence Life and Housing Graduate Hall Director at Wake Forest University; Minister of Youth at United and Senior Vice President, the Baptist Church; Teen Day Camp Counselor at the YMCA of Northwest N.C.; Reverend Dr. Kenneth W. Clapp. and six years serving in various capacities at Camp Hope in Connecticut.

Johnathon Boles ’16 joined the Lilly Center as the Coordinator for Service and Outreach programs in mid-May.

In this role, he will be coordinating service and volunteer opportunities for members of the Catawba community. He also will work with Catawba students who do internships and participate in developing programs and opportunities for church, civic and community groups to participate in that are designed and led by Catawba students. The Retreat Leadership Corps and some other Lilly Center initiatives that provide students with opportunities to develop skills and have experiences that will benefit them in their future work and service to their communities will also be under his direction.

Boles was a Biology major with minors in Chemistry and Accounting while an undergraduate at Catawba. He served as senior class president and president of the Pre-Health Club.

Changes in the College’s Human Resources Office

Larry Farmer of Landis retired May 31st after Davis is a member of the South Carolina 20 years of service as the College’s first Director and North Carolina Bar Associations and of Human Resources. has served on the Education Committees of both associations. He is well-versed On June 1, Drew Davis joined Catawba as its in advising education clients on human Legal Counsel and Director of Human Resources. resources and personnel matters, including the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Larry Farmer Davis has practiced education law for more than Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 17 years, 14 of those in North Carolina. He depart- Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), student ed a position he had held since August 2014 as conduct and discipline, the Family Education General Counsel to the Beaufort and Hilton Head, Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), athletics South Carolina Public School System. issues, student health and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Davis’ prior employment experience includes campus safety, and more. His experience serving four years as General Counsel to the includes responding to administrative Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of complaints regarding Titles II, VII, IX, special Education, one of the largest 90 public school education and discrimination-related issues. systems in the U.S. with more than 9,000 employees and more than 53,000 students. Drew Davis

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Marcus is a consummate Esports is my passion, professional who is and to have the opportunity to committed to each continue my career in North student’s personal Carolina with Catawba College is exhilarating. I am incredibly growth and thankful and honored development. to join the Catawba – Jared Tice, College family. Dean of Students – Gidd Sasser

Marcus Washington Gidd C. Sasser Marcus J. Washington became Catawba’s new Gidd C. Sasser joined Catawba’s Office of Student Affairs Director of Housing and Residence Life in mid-July, on October 1 as Coordinator of the new esports program. filling a key position in the Office of Student Affairs. Catawba joins over 60 other colleges and universities offering an esports Marcus J. Washington became Catawba’s new Director of Housing program, as esports has become the world’s fastest-growing spectator and Residence Life in mid-July, filling a key position in the Office of sport. With Sasser’s hiring, Catawba brings a wealth of experience to its Student Affairs. program startup. Sasser’s esports experience as a head coach, manager, scout, event coordinator, and a business adviser spans both collegiate Washington left a position he had held since 2016 as Assistant and professional leagues in the Americas, Europe, and Korea, with a Director of Residence Life at DeSales University in Center Valley, Pa. lifetime record of 142-60 (70% win rate). His skill set includes work with His prior work experience in higher education includes employment titles such as Overwatch, League of Legends, Rocket League, Hearth- as Resident Director at High Point University (2015-2016), and work stone, Heroes of the Storm, and FGC, and adeptness at player as a Coordinator of Recruitment and Pre-College Programming development through playoff appearances, championships, and player (2013-2015) and as an Admissions Counselor (2010-2013) at placement into professional organizations, teams, and conferences. Messiah College in Mechanicsburg, Pa. Sasse actively speaks across the nation on topics such as recruiting, Before joining the employment ranks in higher education, balancing academics with play, coaching, and program/initiative Washington worked as an Adolescent Program Specialist development. He has 10 years of experience in risk, security, business at Milton Hershey School in Hershey, Pa., as a Family Based management, and public relations. He also has LAN Center operations Mental Health Worker and Therapeutic Staff Support at experience, designing and implementing regional and community Pennsylvania Counseling Services in Carlisle, Pa., and as a Youth centric LAN events encompassing FPS, FGC, Moba, Sports and and Teen Director at the Carlisle Family YMCA also in Carlisle, Pa. TCG ladders/rankings.

Catawba Dean of Students Jared Tice noted Washington’s breadth Sasser led the University of North Carolina Charlotte’s esports program of experience working with teens and college students in announcing between August of 2015 and March of 2018, serving as its manager, his hiring. “Marcus is a consummate professional who is committed coach, analyst, and adviser. That team of approximately 50 players to each student’s personal growth and development. His inclusive were Collegiate Southern Champions in 2017, with as 10-0 season mindset recognizes how diversity enriches a campus and challenges in Overwatch, and a 5-0 playoffs record with Rocket League. students to look past their own worldviews. He is also a first-gener- ation college graduate, as are many of Catawba’s students; that fact Sasser also has served as director and head coach of Kansas Wesleyan alone will serve as an instant point of connection that he will have University’s National Association of Collegiate esports varsity program. with our students,” Tice said. While there, he created the varsity esports budget, coordinated the recruitment and scouting of student athletes, developed sponsorship Washington earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Human Develop- opportunities, and managed and led public engagement via social media. ment and Family Science and his Master of Arts degree in Higher Education from Messiah College in Mechanicsburg, Pa. He holds Although Sasser no longer leads UNCC esports, he serves as an professional memberships in the Association of College and Universi- independent adviser for that organization as well as for other collegiate ty Housing Officers – International and the Mid-Atlantic Association of teams at North Carolina State University and Colorado State University. College & University Housing Officers. His civic engagement includes He serves as a guest coach and adviser to university teams participating service on the President’s Leadership Council at Messiah College, in national playoffs. He has worked as an independent adviser for 5 Kings work as a Youth Group Leader at Calvary Road Church of God in esports, Koyobi LLC, HotShots Sports Bar, and Tespa. He also works Carlisle, Pa., service as a Volunteer Youth Basketball and Football with global Contenders/Trials team, SkyFoxes, as the assistant GM and Coach at Carlisle YMCA in Carlisle, Pa., and work as a Lead community manager. Sasser works as collegiate adviser and speaker for Presenter and Presentation Team Participant at Capital Area DreamHack, the world’s largest annual video game festival. Pregnancy Center in Camp Hill, Pa. Sasser attended Rowan-Cabarrus Community College for an A.S. He is married to wife Lydia, and the couple has two children. degree in General Studies, and earned a certification in simulations and development from Central Piedmont Community College. He is pursuing his Bachelor of Arts degree in English from UNCC.

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Welcome New Student Affairs Staff 2018

It was clear during the interview process that he lived out his personal commitment to the success of and advocacy for students. We found him attuned to the needs and desires of today’s college students and very aware and in lockstep with current trends in higher education, especially at small campuses like Catawba’s.

– President Brien Lewis

Jared Tice Jared Tice became Catawba’s Dean of Students on June 1, concluding a national search to fill the cabinet-level role.

Tice had served at Barton College in Wilson, N.C., since Tice has been a frequent presenter at professional 2011. He joined the community there first as Director conferences, most notably at the Southern Regional of New Student Programs, Student Activities, Greek Life, meetings of the National Orientation Directors Associa- and Intramural Sports, a position he held between 2011 tion. He authored two successful grant applications, one and 2014. In 2014, he was promoted to Dean of Students. for $15,000 and one for $14,660, while employed by the His responsibilities expanded to include serving as senior Pleasants County Boys & Girls Club. He was honored by judicial officer and chief student advocate, while also Barton College in 2016 with the Spirit of Barton Award, supervising the Office of Student Activities, Greek Life, as the staff member who had made a significant difference Intramural Sports, New Student Programs, and Parent in students’ lives and personified that institution’s core and Family Relations. He also taught at Barton, including commitments. First-Year Seminar and Sports Management courses. He holds professional memberships in the Association “We are delighted that Jared accepted our offer to join for Orientation, Retention, and Transition in Higher Catawba,” said Catawba President Brien Lewis. Education (NODA), the Association for the Promotion of Campus Activities, the Association of Student Unions Tice served as Student Activities Program Coordinator at International, American College Personnel Association, West Virginia Northern Community College in Wheeling, the National Association of Student Personnel Administra- W.Va., between 2010 and 2011, coordinating and planning tors, and the Association of College and University Housing social, recreational and intramural programs for that Officers – International. institution’s 3,200 students on three different campuses. Originally from St. Marys, W.Va., Tice earned his Bachelor His other employment experience includes serving in of Arts degree in Political Science with a minor in Business 2009 as Special Events, Service Learning, and Volunteer Administration from Concord University in Athens, W.Va., Coordinator for the Boys & Girls Club of Pleasants County and his Master of Arts degree in Education Leadership with in Saint Marys, W.Va., and in 2008, serving as a Graduate an emphasis in Higher Education Administration from West Assistant in the Office of Teacher Education in the College Virginia University in Morgantown. He is currently pursuing of Education & Human Services at West Virginia University his Doctorate in Education in Higher Education Leadership in Morgantown, W.Va. from Maryville University in Maryville, Mo.

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Catawba College Adds Esports The College hired Gidd Sasser as its Coordinator of esports, and finalized the location and equipment for its esports gaming lab this fall. Sasser is now actively recruiting students to play on Catawba’s esports team.

With the addition of the esports program, Catawba joins over 60 other colleges and universities offering the program that has become the world’s fastest-growing spectator sport.

It is estimated that by 2019 nearly 430 million people worldwide will tune in to watch esports competitors play in organized, multiplayer video games. The popularity of esports is tied to the accessibility of online streaming media platforms like Twitch.tv and YouTube.

Esports tournaments like the League of Legends World Championship, The International and the Intel Extreme Masters provide live broadcasts of competition and prize money, with play often occurring in venues like Madison Square Garden that are regularly sold out. In response to the popularity of esports, ESPN has broadened its sports coverage to include reporting on esports competitors and competitions. According to PBS.org, the esports industry was anticipated to gross nearly $1 billion by the end of 2018.

Tice said Catawba’s esports program has the potential to seamlessly thread together the academic, social, and intercollegiate aspects of campus. “Esports tournaments featuring Catawba students as competitors will become an on-campus spectator event with large screens broadcasting the game action while fellow students watch and cheer. Students in our Communication Department can collaborate with the Catawba esports team and its coordinator to record and broadcast the event on the social media channel, Twitch, and to stream play to large screens on campus. Communication students may also serve as play-by-play commentators for on-campus esports competition, while our Marketing students may help promote the Catawba esports team. Our Sport Management or Business Administration students can gain insights and even potential careers in establishing and managing a winning esports team.”

“In short, esports provides Catawba with a new and distinctive way to holistically engage our students across campus. It will be exciting to see the potential connections and impact evolve.”

The addition of esports allows us to meet our students where their interests are,” explained Jared Tice, Catawba College’s Dean of Students. Esports gives Catawba another pathway for student recruitment and provides our current and future student-athletes with a new and exciting intercollegiate sport.

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DR. KARL HALES HONORED WITH ORDER OF THE LONG LEAF PINE BY N.C. GOVERNOR

The award was presented by Catawba alumnus Phil Kirk ’65, a former trustee and chairman emeritus of the N.C. State Board of Education, who read the actual Order proclama- tion from Gov. Roy Cooper. Catawba President Brien Lewis also played a role in the presentation citing acco- lades about Hales that were included in recommendation letters written in support of him receiving the award.

Catawba College Professor Hales founded Catawba College’s Communications Arts Department, and had a 39-year career at the college until his Emeritus of Communication retirement in 2005. He has been the public address announcer Arts, Dr. Karl Hales, was at Catawba football games for 38 years. And, over almost 40 honored and speechless years, he has visited Rowan County elementary schools to present Christmas stories. on October 21 when he Hales received his bachelor’s degree from Drury College received the Order of the (now Drury University) in 1962, majoring in speech, drama Long Leaf Pine. The award, and English. He earned his master’s in speech and dramatic one of the most prestigious arts from the University of Arkansas in 1966 and a Ph.D. from Florida State University in rhetoric and public address, with a that can be presented by N.C. minor in theater, in 1975. Hales also has taken studies in governors, was presented to para-professional psychology and counseling at Catawba and Livingstone colleges, and post-doctoral studies in continuing Hales during Sunday morning education and management from Harvard University. worship at his church, First Catawba College has honored Hales with the Swink Award Presbyterian of Salisbury. for Outstanding Classroom Teaching, the Paul Fisher Service Award, and with induction into the Blue Masque Hall of Fame.

#gocatawba Catawba.edu 19 MINDBODYSOUL Campaign for Growth Expanding the Donor Base: Give, As You Are Able ­— Ensuring the Financial Future by Recruiting and Retaining Students

Dan Bross is a first-generation college graduate and still the only person from his family who went to college. He grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania and went to a high school that had only 95 students in his class. Going to Catawba College changed his life, and he talks about what Catawba did for him every chance he gets. He thinks there are a lot of students like him, who need the experiences that a small liberal arts college offers. He wants to make sure that those students have the opportunities that he experienced. Bross, Class of ’71, is co-chair of the new $38.2 million MIND BODY SOUL Campaign for Growth at Catawba. He knows that when it comes to choosing a college, one size does not fit all. Still, he is convinced of the need for “the rich, personal, intimate relationship with students that is Catawba. I want to make sure that experience is available to others,” he says. “I Dr. Constance Rogers-Lowery, Provost/Professor of Biology want to make sure that Catawba is able to provide the next and a member of the MIND committee, offers the following generation as they provided for me. I owe whatever successes examples of funding opportunities in the MIND area: A $50 I have had in my professional and personal life to Catawba.” gift purchases supplies to support a research project or creative work by a student; a $300 gift provides a first Bross retired as Senior Director of Business and Corporate business suit for a student who completes the Career Responsibility for Microsoft, working both in Seattle and New Services Program of Development; a $1,000 gift provides York City. He now works as a consultant and uses much of his a scholarship for a travel experience or a local internship; free time to give back to Catawba “because Catawba gave so a $5,000 gift sponsors a student engaging in an out-of-town much to me,” he says. He has served on the Board of Trustees internship, international study experience, or a summer-long for 22 years. research project. Bross likes that the MIND BODY SOUL campaign is two-fold,  GOAL 2: Ensure the College’s financial future by recruiting with goals to: and retaining students. Growth is essential. With growth  GOAL 1: Expand the donor base and re-engage alumni of 200 students, the College would add $4.3 million to its who left Catawba with wonderful memories and then, tuition revenue per year. Growth of 700 students would for whatever reason, fell away from the College and its allow the College to add $10.3 million to its annual revenue. mission. “We want alumni and friends of the College to Homecoming weekend on Oct. 19-20 marked the beginning know that each dollar is important,” he says. He wants of the campaign with a special kick-off event. The College’s to dispel the notion that a $35 gift that would have been Office of Development is concentrating on three specific areas Starbucks money can’t help. It can. “We want everyone in the MIND BODY SOUL campaign with donors designating involved, regardless of the level of giving,” he says. where their dollars will be used. The array of giving opportunities provides something for The three-year campaign is designed to upgrade facilities and everyone, he says, either in academics, athletics or the begin new programs. spiritual area. Darlene Ball of Salisbury, Class of ’62, and co-chair of the campaign, says that the kick-off event clearly explained the importance of all gifts – large and small – and the importance of each gift to the future of the College. “Each gift counts,” she says. “This is an engagement campaign. We want to reach and engage all alumni and friends of the College. Everyone that will make a key difference. They can contribute, as they are able, and we will show them results.”

— Dan Bross,’71, Co-chair of the MIND BODY SOUL Campaign for Growth

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More than 200 alumni and friends of the college attended the engagement, and the faculty attention to mature as an kick-off event at the Robertson College-Community Center, individual,” he says. “The views that I heard at Catawba, both held immediately after the winning homecoming game. The conservative and liberal, helped me figure out who I am.” evening event also debuted a video featuring familiar faces Fred Stanback of Salisbury and Junie Michael of Mooresville, touting the importance of the campaign. The video can be Class of ’70, are Honorary Co-Chairs of the campaign. Meg K. viewed on the Catawba College Facebook page and YouTube Dees is interim Vice President of Development. channel for those who were unable to attend the event. Brochures and a website (www.CatawbaMindBodySoul.com) The campaign is planned for a three-year period, and is set up are available explaining each phase of the campaign with as follows: details of how the dollars will be used. Contributions towards  the campaign may also be made online through the website. MIND, $28 million, for Environment and Science, Health “The event defined specifically what we need today,” says Ball. Science, Performing Arts, Business, Student Success, Impact Areas (Internships, Research and Creativity, Brien Lewis, College president, says that the campaign reflects Travel and Service Learning), and Scholarship Support. that reaching one’s full potential requires the education of This committee is led by Deborah Messinger of Salisbury, the whole person. “Catawba needs to be placed firmly at the Class of ’74, and Greg Alcorn of Salisbury, Class of ’79. intersection of the liberal arts and real world experiences. Dr. Constance Rogers-Lowery, Provost, and member of the The campaign is about ensuring that we are fully prepared MIND Committee, says that “an education is more than just to provide access to 21st century opportunities,” he says. facts and information learned in a classroom. It is about “In addition to inspiring professors, today’s students need using knowledge to do things you could not do before, to experiential opportunities such as internships, travel, service experience in a new way, and to create that which is bold and and undergraduate research.” unique. That is the true impact of a Catawba education.” “Our growth plan seeks to make the distinctive Catawba  experience sustainable, while ensuring that every student BODY, $6.9 million, for Kirkland Field Artificial Turf for has access to the programs and experiences that will prepare Football/Track, State-of-the-Art Video Board, Newman them to succeed in a rapidly evolving and demanding world,” Park Baseball Field Renovation, Abernethy PE Center New Lewis says. Locker Rooms, Renovated First Floor Coaches’ Offices, Outdoor Sand Volleyball, Whitley Softball Field Lighting, Bross says that his story of finding himself at Catawba is not and Frock Athletic Complex Restrooms/Concessions. This unique. “I have heard it over and over again, from other committee is led by Barbara Marshall of Cary, Class of ’72, alumni, from 25-year grads to 2018 grads,” he says. “The values and Randy Crumpler of Raleigh, Class of ’75. that are part of me today germinated when I was at Catawba.” Jim Gantt, baseball coach, says that improvements in athletic Bross chose Catawba over Penn State, with its then 40,000 fields and buildings will grow programs and the student body. student enrollment. “I would have been completely lost at a “The bigger field dimensions at Newman Park will entice large school. I needed the personal attention, the community pitchers to want to come pitch for Catawba,” he says.

The kick-off event for the campaign was held on Homecoming Weekend and included displays for each section of the campaign. Teams of alumni, students and professors promoted each section of the campaign. A photo booth allowed attendees to pose with fun MIND BODY SOUL props.

Forrest Anderson, Associate Provost, with Rob Perron, Head Men’s Basketball coach; Carrie Graham, Dr. Dolan Hubbard ’71 with Payton Coleman ’19 Bob ’78 and Dottie ’78 Haynes Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Research and Reginald Pulley ’19 & Creativity; Shelley Tyler-Smith, Director of Career and Internship Services; Forrest Anderson, Associate Provost; and Elizabeth Anderson

#CatawbaMindBodySoul CatawbaMindBodySoul.com 21  SOUL, $3.3 million, for Organ Renovation and Enhancement, Omwake-Dearborn Chapel Endowment, Endowment for Discovery Programs, and Support for Clergy Alumni, Churches and Students Preparing for Ministry. This campaign is led by Sara Cook of Salisbury, Class of ’65, and Richard Seiwell of West Chester, Pa., Class of ’67. The Cassavant Organ is in need of repair. The organ is more than 50 years old, and while it has provided acoustical splendor in the chapel for many years, it is at the point that it must be renovated and enhanced. The organ can be played, but barely and only by someone who knows the organ and its limitations well. Many notes are “dead” and the console action locks up at times. The plan is to rebuild/renovate the 40 percent of the organ that can be, and couple this to a 4 manual Rodgers 484 organ. This will customize the organ to meet Catawba’s needs. The American Gothic-styled chapel is a landmark on campus and ties the College to the community through both public and private events. It is distinguished by a nave lined with stone gothic arches, a three-paneled stained glass window rising above the reredos, a beautiful rose window and a 75-bell carillon. The Chapel holds special meaning for the Rev. Dr. Kenneth Clapp, Class of ’70 and College Chaplain and Senior Vice President. He John Wear, Director of Center for the Environment; says that for 30 years, he has “walked through this beautiful Pam Thompson, Associate Professor of Information Systems ; edifice almost every day on the way to my study and each time Gwin Barr, Catawba Trustee; and Lucy Barr I enter it, I still feel a sense of awe as the morning sun pierces the chancel window, casting slivers of multi-colored light across the pews and through the arches, light that proclaims anew the wonder and presence of God in our lives.” Seiwell, co-chair of the SOUL campaign, says that throughout Catawba’s history, the College has been consistent in providing for the spiritual growth and development of its students. This new funding will “enable us to continue this wonderful tradition by maintaining current programs and developing new ones. These programs help students discover who they are, how they should live out their faith and what they are called to do vocationally,” he says.

For more information on the campaign, visit Darlene Ball ’62; Earl Givens , Library Director; Jay Bolin, Chair of Biology Department www.CatawbaMindBodySoul.com or contact the Catawba College Office of Development at 704.637.4394. Campaign Co-Chairs Dan Bross ’70 and Darlene Ball ’62

Catawba students entertained at the kick-off event which was attended by 200 people. Co-chairs, Dan Bross and Darlene Ball detailed the “MIND BODY SOUL Catawba’s Campaign for Growth” at a presention in Hedrick Little Theatre.

Catawba Choral students singing the alma mater

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HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

Gifts from all constituents can be viewed online at the Catawba.edu/donors

Catawba would not be Catawba without you and your gifts. Catawba.edu/give

1971 Alumnus Honored with Catawba’s Prestigious Adrian L. Shuford, Jr. Award

Daniel T. Bross

Catawba alumnus and trustee Daniel T. Bross, who serves as co-chair of Catawba’s recently launched Campaign Co-Chairs Dan Bross ’70 and Darlene Ball ’62 Bross of New York, N.Y., was honored on $38.2 million Mind Body Soul Campaign, was presented the award Sunday, November 11, as the 2018 recipient by College President Brien Lewis, during a special 1851 Society of the College’s prestigious Adrian L. Shu- Celebration for the institution’s major donors. The event was held in ford, Jr. Award for Distinguished Service. Peeler Crystal Lounge of the Robertson College-Community Center.

Read more about Bross and view images of the event at Catawba.edu/shuford18

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International Study Scholarships Fund Summer Experiences for Two Catawba Students

Leah Huggins ’19

Daniel Morrison ’19

This past summer, I went on the minutes into our descent, we realized our mistake. We spent the better part of half an hour sliding down the side of Arthur’s Seat, the sound of a music most exciting trip of my life, festival below floating up to us in the open air. It was amazing. It was terrifying. and it simply wouldn’t have And as soon as it was over, we found the nearest pub and treated ourselves to some well-earned Scotch. For the rest of that day, we felt like true Scots— been possible without my though Nic’s version of our morning mountain climb became more and more death-defying with each telling. It was hard to say goodbye to Edinburgh, Catawba College family. so I settled for “until next time!” I hope to return before too long and hike Arthur’s Seat again—though this time, I may stick to the main path. Thanks to the support of faculty, staff, and especially Mrs. We emerged from King’s Cross Station in the heart of London, all forty Hurley, I was able to spend five weeks studying literature in one USAC students. We were from all over the States, though by this point, we of the most literarily significant cities in the world—London. had all become thick as thieves. We moved into our lodging house only a few Before London, though, my first stop was Edinburgh where blocks from Hyde Park and the Albert Memorial. Imperial College, where I I met up with the other students who would be joining me on this spent 8 hours in class 2 days a week, was in South Kensington, sitting right adventure. Brought together by the University Study Abroad Con- on Exhibition Road, so it was easy to pop into the Natural History Museum sortium, we arrived in Scotland eager to see as much as we could or the Victoria and Albert Museum between classes. in the five days we had before taking the train down to London. It I had been looking forward to the tube and the Globe and the pubs, became pretty clear that we would have to pack our schedules full but I was taken by surprise by just how much I loved my classwork. Studying if we were going to make the most of our time in Edinburgh—and under biographer Lucinda Hawksley, a direct descendent of Charles Dickens, that’s exactly what we did! Guided by our USAC advisors, we was an absolute privilege, as was learning about authors in the very city in traipsed up and down the hills of Edinburgh, through castles and which they worked. The experience of studying Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the museums and our fair share of pubs. One day, we even took a morning and then spending the afternoon at the Sherlock Holmes Museum twelve hour bus ride through the highlands, which was easily one at 221B Baker Street was surreal. We read Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and of the highlights of the entire summer. We took a ferry on Loch then retraced the character’s route through the city from the beginning of the Ness which was absolutely breathtaking, despite the disappoint- novel, with Professor Hawksley pointing out all sorts of sights along the way. ment of not stumbling across any monsters in the lake’s depths. It was a phenomenal way to see the city and to learn about the classics One morning in Edinburgh stands apart in my mind, though, of the literary canon. and I know I will never forget it. My friend Nic and I, despite being Speaking of the literary canon, the greatest privilege of my time in worn out from our daily hikes through the city, resolved to climb London was having the opportunity to stand among the groundlings and Arthur’s Seat, the veritable mountain that looms above Edinburgh. watch Hamlet at Shakespeare’s Globe. It’s difficult to describe the feeling We rose early, knowing we had to be back by lunch to meet up of taking in such a classic in a perfect recreation of the space it was originally with our group, and set out for the base of the mountain. I’ve never performed in. The performers were incredible and—even though we were been much of an outdoorsy guy, but the astounding natural beauty all exhausted standing in the uncharacteristically hot weather—I loved every of the rolling hills and verdant grass kept drawing me off the main second of it. I came back without my group a few weeks later to catch path. Nic, a good sport, followed along as we got further and fur- Othello. After being in a staged reading of Othello my freshman year ther from the straight-shot path that led straight to the peak—and at Catawba, it was incredible to see it done at the Globe. as our route became less a hike and more a climb. Every time we It was a whirlwind of a summer. Though it was good to return to scrambled up one rock, we’d take in the view, and then see a rock North Carolina where chips are chips and fries are fries and we drive on the higher up that we simply had to climb. By the time we made it to right side of the road, I still miss the walk through Hyde Park to get to class the peak of Arthur’s Seat, we were out of breath from more than and the tube rides back from a night at the theater. And even though the city just the amazing views. was absolutely devastated when it turned out that the World Cup was in fact But it was the way down that proved to be the most difficult! not “Coming Home”, I’ll always be grateful to Catawba and Mrs. Hurley for Somehow, we started down the wrong side of the mountain. In allowing me to be there, to spend a summer across the Atlantic, studying our defense, it looked just as walk-able as the other, but a few what I love and experiencing something completely new.

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International Study Scholarships Fund Summer Experiences for Two Catawba Students

Leah Huggins ’19

The trip of a lifetime – eye-opening, impactful, life-changing, and so much more that I won’t list – is exactly how I would describe my experience in Ireland. I cannot put into words how grateful I am to have experienced something such as this. Catawba College seniors Daniel Morrison of

Nervous, excited, frightened and anxious can all describe the mixture Greensboro, N.C., and Leah Huggins of Hope of emotions I was feeling in the few weeks leading up to May 23rd. Mill, N.C., were humanities students who had I arrived at the airport and kissed my parents goodbye, not knowing study abroad experiences this past summer that my life was about to be permanently impacted. As I reached my first thanks to their successful applications as layover in Philadelphia, I was greeted by about 20 strangers who are now among some of my closest friends. We all boarded the plane and eight inaugural recipients of the Gerry and Jim hours later arrived in Dublin. Hurley International Study Scholarship. For the first week of this trip, I was able to travel the entire island of Ireland, exploring the Ring of Kerry, Slae Head, Dingle, Kilarny and Leah’s study abroad program, offered through the many other small towns. I was immersed in the Irish culture through song, University Studies Abroad Consortium (USAC), had her dance and cuisine. My experience did not slow down after this tour, as I based in Cork, Ireland, where she took a three-hour credit then became settled in Cork, where I was to study for the next six weeks; course titled “Introduction to the Folklore and Ethnology my adventure had just begun. of Cork.” In her application, she noted that she “will be I explored the city with fellow classmates, amazed by the history. I able to explore the interesting world of the folklore as it could not get enough of this place. I became friends with a few locals who applies to Cork, Ireland, as well as the accents, dialects, would give us tours of the city and direct us to which sights were the ‘must idioms, and expressions of the people of Cork that have sees’ of Ireland such as The Cliffs of Moher, or the beach town of Kinsale. been passed down through generations. Through the art Though Ireland is quaint, its beauty is indescribable. Spending these of folklore these stories will reflect the social, economic few short weeks on such a small island opened my eyes to just how busy and technological landscape of this culture. This course and routine my life in America was. I have now learned to live on “Irish will be beneficial to my personal studies as it will enable me time” as they call it, taking in the atmosphere around me, actually living to draw connections between Cork culture and my own.” in the moment rather than focusing solely on the next task. I returned from Ireland cultured, spontaneous, and grateful for the Daniel’s experience took him to London, England, things we take for granted such as Walmart or refined sugar, because who where he took two three-credit hour courses offered likes Oreos that aren’t sweet?! I had the thought before I left that I was through Imperial College. This English Literature major independent, but I quickly realized that I did not know the meaning of the who is pursuing minors in Psychology and Theatre Arts word. Being completely on my own, having a clean slate for six weeks, confided on his application: “I’ve never been out of the not having my parents to fix any issues I had, and being forced to step country and England has been the place I most want out of my comfort zone and make new friends was by far the best thing to go for a long time. It is home of many of our literary that could have happened to me. traditions; getting to study great British authors abroad Grateful is an understatement, as I have the [Catawba] Humanities in their own country would be an amazing opportunity.” Department and Mrs. [Gerry] Hurley and USAC to thank for making this experience possible for me. Without this scholarship, it would have been Check out their first-person blogs at financially unattainable for my family and I to have funded this sort of trip. These few words do not even begin to describe or convey how Catawba.edu/hurleyabroad life-changing this experience was for me. #gocatawba Catawba.edu 25

New School of Health Sciences & Human Performance Established and Its Dean Named

We want empathetic students who have servant hearts and who are passionate about their academic discipline.

Dr. Jim Hand Dr. Valerie Rakes – Dr. Jim Hand

Catawba College has established place in the Department of Nursing, including and coordinator of Clinical Education at a new School of Health Sciences its new department chair, Dr. Valerie Rakes. California Lutheran University, and as an & Human Performance and has assistant professor of Sport Science and “We’re excited to begin the new academic director of Athletic Training Education at named Associate Professor of year with the School of Health Sciences & Wingate University. Health Sciences, Dr. Jim Hand, Human Performance, and pleased to have as its founding dean. our administration’s support behind this Hand earned his undergraduate degree effort,” Hand shared. “Although we will be in Recreation Management with a minor The new School houses three different phasing out our Athletic Training program in Sports Medicine from Culver-Stockton departments, including the Department with the graduates in the Class of 2020, College, his master’s degree in Physical of Health Sciences (Athletic Training, we will continue to serve the athletic com- Education from Ohio University, and his Exercise Science, and Therapeutic munity in our other programs, like the Sports Ed.D. in Educational Leadership form Recreation); the Department of Human Medicine track that is offered in the Exercise California Lutheran University. Performance (Sport Management and Science major. This track features collabo- Recreation); and the Department of rations with local hospitals, doctors’ offices, Dr. Valerie Rakes joined the Catawba faculty Nursing (Bachelor of Science in Nursing occupational and physical therapy offices, in June of this year as chair and associate Pre-Licensure and the RN to BSN program). and the V.A. hospital. professor. A registered nurse with 29 years’ Prior to the establishment of this new school experience in both hospital practice and at Catawba, the Department of Sport and “In all of our academic program offerings academic settings, her teaching expertise Health Sciences was housed in the Good- in the School of Health Sciences & Human includes leadership, behavioral health, man School of Education and the Depart- Performance, it is important to us that we therapeutic communication, maternal-child, ment of Nursing was housed in the Hurley give back – that’s a big part of who we are and pediatric nursing courses. She is School of Arts and Sciences. as a college with the core values of schol- currently involved with an evidence-based arship, character, culture and service. We practice project to increase clinical reasoning The School of Health Science & Human want empathetic students who have servant in undergraduate baccalaureate nursing Performance currently houses academic hearts and who are passionate about their students utilizing technology and programs that enroll 216 of Catawba’s academic discipline.” theory-driven educational methods. current undergraduate student population (of Catawba’s 1296 undergraduate enroll- Dr. Hand joined the Catawba faculty in 2010 Rakes’ educational background includes ment for the 2018-2019 academic year). as an assistant professor and director of an Associate of Applied Science degree Athletic Training Education. He was granted in Nursing from Fayetteville Technical Dr. Hand is tasked with assisting in recruit- tenure by a vote of the College Board of Community College; a Bachelor of Science ment of students to the aforementioned Trustees in 2014. Before joining Cataw- in Nursing degree from Cabarrus College academic majors, providing oversight to the ba, he served as an assistant professor of of Health Sciences; a Master of Science nursing accreditation process, and devel- Motorsport Management at Winston-Salem degree in Nursing (Leadership in Healthcare oping new undergraduate and graduate State University, as an assistant professor of Educational Systems) from East Carolina programs, as resources are made available. Human Performance and Sports Medicine University; and a Doctorate of Nursing He will work collaboratively on the nursing and director of Athletic Training Education Practice (Leadership and Education) accreditation process with new faculty in and assistant professor of Sports Sciences from Gardner-Webb University.

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Dr. Rakes said, “The commitment to com- passionate care oath represents the begin- ning chapter in the life of nursing students. The ending chapter is graduation, including the baccalaureate nursing pin ceremony. Compassion is the core value in nursing. Compassion cannot be taught; however, is the greatest quality of an excellent nurse.” Nursing Students in Catawba’s Classes of 2020 and 2019 Recognized in White Coat Ceremony

Catawba College’s Department of Nursing formally welcomed members of its Class of 2020 into the nursing program during a White Coat Ceremony held Friday, September 28 on campus. As families and friends looked on, members of the Class of 2020 who are entering the upper division of the program received their white coats, and stood alongside their senior nursing peers in the Class of 2019 to recite the Department’s Commitment to Compassionate Care Oath.

Dr. Valerie Rakes, Chair of the Department of Nursing, noted that this inaugural White Coat Ceremony was a new tradition at Catawba and said it was synonymous with the Compassionate Care Ceremony.

Rakes said, “The commitment to compassionate care oath represents the beginning chapter in the life of nursing students. The ending chapter is graduation, including the baccalaureate nursing pin ceremony. Compassion is the core value in nursing. Compassion cannot be taught; however, is the greatest quality of an excellent nurse.”

Nine nursing students in the Class of 2020 who participated in the ceremony included Madison J. Bell of New Port Richey, Fla.; Amber M. Biscotti of Mt. Pleasant; Cassandra M. Damery of Matthews; Preston H. Ellenberg of Leland; Paige A. Keaton of East Bend; Emma D. Kluge of Thomasville; A’Jewel Leak of Durham; Madison Lilly of Lexington; Autumn M. McGee of China Grove; Hannah M. Perry of Mocksville; and Brooke N. Walser of Salisbury.

Senior nursing students in Catawba’s inaugural Class of 2019 who were recog- nized at the ceremony included Vonetta Carrington of Charlotte; Tatyanna Car- ter of Salisbury; Sarah Ducote of Mocksville; Victoria Lopez of Salisbury; Cherell Martin of Salisbury; Cindra Martin of Mooresville; Sophia Smith of Salisbury; Stacy Sword-Halsey of Winston-Salem; and Paul (Tyler) Thomas of Mocksville.

Catawba Signs RN to BSN and Comprehensive Articulation Agreements to Ease Transitions from Community Colleges

In mid-October, Catawba College joined 10 other four-year private college in North Carolina that signed an RN to BSN articulation agreement between North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities (NCICU) and the N.C. Community College System that will make it easier for RNs to advance their careers with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. The RN to BSN agreement describes a progression plan that includes required general education and nursing prerequisite courses acceptable to all participating RN to BSN programs. Students who follow the plan and take those courses at community colleges will meet the entrance requirements for those RN to BSN programs.

Additionally, Catawba became a signatory of the Independent Comprehensive Articulation Agreement (ICAA) that the NCICU negotiated with the NC Community College System. The ICAA agreement allows community college students to transfer seamlessly to a private college or university, assuring that their credits will transfer.

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From our Catawba Tower Society

In the First Person: Tower Society Member Helen B. Everhart of Clemmons, N.C., Shares Her Catawba Story

While visiting with Randy Southard [employed by Catawba College as a Senior Development Associate and a 1974 alumnus] in May of 2018, I realized that I have a “Catawba Story” to tell. With my 90th birthday approaching this year, I decided it was time to share it.

When I graduated from high school at age 16, I was in the last group in North Carolina to do so in 11 years. No one in my extended family had gone to college, but my mother dreamed of having her children educated; she had been the only one of 13 children in her family to graduate from high school. I still marvel at how my parents came up with the money from a farm income to fulfill my dream.

Catawba was the only college near enough to Davie County for me to know about. A girl in my senior class of 19 graduates, Maggie Lou Barney had enrolled there in 1945. I had to wait until the fall of 1946 to get things arranged to go. I loved everything about college from day one! The first thing I remember is how friendly everyone was. “Catawba says ‘Hey’” was not just a motto, it was the standard practice.

The second thing that impressed me was the close relationship between the college and the town of Salisbury. We were given rides to and from campus by friendly residents – “Just stand on the ‘bumming corner’ ” and a passer-by would offer a ride. It was a safer world then and few students had a car.

The third great memory is the feeling of extended family. Everybody knew everybody! The star athlete was friendly with the shy scholar. The older ex-G.I. was never condescending toward the younger person struggling to find his/her way in the adult world. The administrators and faculty members made every effort to make us feel welcome in our new home.

My plan to become a meteorologist was stymied by a poor background in math. I dropped out after my sophomore year to work a year and rethink my future. After working for Southern Bell Telephone Company for 18 months, I was blessed to be guided toward a career in teaching.

My younger sister and I, with encouragement and financial help from a high school teacher, were able to attend Appalachian State Teacher College (now ASU). We were both able to go to a state-supported school for a little more than I was paying to go to Catawba (Private Colleges continue to struggle with this problem). Had I not had such a wonderful experience at Catawba, I might never have gone back to college.

In 1954, I married an ex-G.I. who got his education at High Point College (now HPU). He was also Below: 36th Infantry Division’s the first in his family to attend college. We both became teachers, which means we never became combat service identification badge wealthy, but we never forgot how blessed we had been to get a college education.

When we reached the point in our lives when updating our will became important, we agreed that HPU and Catawba had played such positive roles in our lives that we wanted them to share in our estate. We decided to split one-fifth of our legacy between these institutions. Our two children and two grandchildren will each receive a fifth and will also see how much we value education. Our hope is that what we contribute will make a difference in the life of some student who will be inspired to “pass it on.”

It is with humility and gratitude that we remember the sacrifices made by our parents: the Ben and Mary Everhart and Olin and Edna Barnhardt families.

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CATAWBA PLANNED GIVING Reach out for more details on how you can become part of our Catawba Tower Society today.

Randy Southard ’74, Senior Development Associate 704-640-3737 [email protected] Catawba.edu/plannedgiving

Get to know happy, 98 year-old, 1947 Catawba Graduate Edward “Bud” L. Hedrick, Jr. n His wife of 71 years, recently passed in October of this year, she was 94 years old. n 3 children; one child was still-born, one child died while traveling from Appalachian University in a traffic accident, one child still alive – Brooks (son); Brooks graduated from N.C. State University. n Met his wife in Asheboro on a blind date arranged by some friends after his return from WWII. n Bud attended Catawba for two reasons; membership of family in Reformed Church and his older sister Rebecca (deceased) attended Catawba. n Arlee Culp, longtime N.C. Congressional member from Randolph County was a roommate at Catawba. n Graduated high school in 1937 and came to Catawba. Tenure at Catawba was interrupted by 3 years 8 months in the Army. He was in an Artillery unit while in Germany and was reassigned to a Quarter- master unit upon return to the States. He mustered out as a 1st Lieutenant. n He was in the 36th Infantry, a unit from Texas, while in WWII, entering the war in southern France and spending time in Germany while advancing on the enemy troops. He was in a Forward Observer Group for his Field Artillery division. After victory in Germany, he was part of the Army of Occupation. n Played baseball on the first American Legion baseball team in Randolph County in 1935. n Served on the Randolph County Soil and Water Board for 20 years, including a stint as the President Texas 36th Infantry Division of that Board. battle during World War II n Career was spent in the textile industry – American Braid Company. n Before war, worked in the shipyards in Wilmington, N.C. CATAWBA MEMORIES: n Dr. Faust (the Faust who taught religion) was one of his most memorable professors. n Remembers that Dr. Dearborn was the Dean of Men when he was there. n Remembers that the campus basically consisted of the Administration building (where everything occurred, from housing to cafeteria to chapel to classes…..) and two women’s living quarters/buildings. n Hedrick Administration building is named for his uncle, Jones Tilden Hedrick, but he doesn’t Below: 36th Infantry Division’s remember the reason. combat service identification badge n Bud says he is still very mobile, but hasn’t driven in nearly 15 years due to failing eyesight. Says he “gives out easily”, so when he goes out to rake leaves in the yard he takes a chair with him so he can rest – again smiles and laughs.

A Bud Catawba story – when he was nearing graduation he met with Dr. Dearborn as was standard for seniors. He asked Dr. Dearborn to make sure everything was in order as he didn’t want to get to graduation and find he had come up short on hours. About 3 weeks before graduation he got a note to come to Dr. Dearborn’s office. Dr. Dearborn told him he was ½ credit short – the ½ credit was for P.E.!!! He said Dr. Dearborn said “don’t worry, I’ll figure this out.” Bud says that 3 days before graduation he got a note from Dr. Dearborn to come to his office. Dr. Dearborn told him everything had been taken care of ... that he had discussed with the Trustees and they were giving him the ½ P.E. credit due to his service time in WWII!!!!! Bud tells that story with a laugh and a smile.

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THEATRE ARTS

704.637.4481 catawba.edu/theatretix For Production Info: catawba.edu/theatreevents

The (curious case of the) Into the Woods Watson Intelligence Hedrick Little Theatre, Florence Busby Corriher Theatre, April 10-13, 7:30p, February 12-16, 7:30p April 13, 2:30p by Madeline George Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; In this time-jumping play by Mad- Book by James Lapine. eleine George, time and character run parallel in the present, 19th A witch. A wish. A wolf. What century America, and the fictional could go wrong? England of Sherlock Holmes, where In Stephen Sondheim’s classic multiple characters played by only musical, all your favorite fairy three actors struggle with the idea tale characters journey Into the Woods to get their wishes granted. of meaningful interpersonal connections and examine closely how But along the way, they discover the dangerous consequences technology effects human relationships. of wishing, and learn that what tears us apart might also hold us together. “Careful the tale you tell, that is the spell...” Adult: $15 Non-Catawba Students/Senior Adults: $10 Myrtle’s Club FlexTix Members (Season Tickets) – Stay flexible, while still saving over buying tickets individually. 4 or 8 tickets to use however and whenever you want. Flex8 - $80 (8 tickets) Flex4 - $40 (4 tickets)

“I’ll never stop believing it: Robert Olen Butler is the best living American writer, period.” - Jeff Guinn, Fort Worth Star-Telegram 33rd Annual Brady Author’s Symposium

Thursday Robertson College- 03.14.2019 Community Center Robert Olen Butler – Pulitzer Prize-winning author – His novels and six short story collections include works like “Good Scent from a Strange Mountain,” that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1993; “Perfume River: A Novel” (2016); “The Empire of Night” (2014); and “The Hot Country” (2012).

For details or to register to attend, visit www.catawba.edu/authorsymposium

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Quite a few Catawba alumni are published authors. Below are details about a few who have submitted information about their works.

George R. Kuper ’65 Julia Taylor Ebel ’72 (aka Uncle Pappy) has published a juvenile of Jamestown, N.C., dubs herself a “keeper of stories.” fiction book, “Christmas Secrets,” the first in She is the author of numerous children’s books, many inspired a series of Christmas books that reveal the by her love of the North Carolina mountains and their people. secrets of Santa Claus. This first 32-page Titles include, “Hansi and the Iceman,” “The Picture Man,” book sold through Amazon and Barnes and “Walking Ribbon,” “Orville Hicks: Mountain Stories, Mountain Noble, explains how Santa delivers toys to Roots,” and “Mama’s Wreaths,” to name a few. Her books all the children of the world in just one night. are available on her website at www.JuliaEbel.com. Future books in the series explain what San- ta does with all the milk and cookies, how he fits down the chimney, and other secrets Andrew Teague McCollister ’15, that adults and children will want to know. published his first novel in March 2018 entitled “Beneath the Surface.” The thriller/suspense, available on Amazon, follows George is a retired executive in the consum- the fictional character Conner Mills, a scholar and champion er-packaged goods industry. He, his wife, swimmer, just as he begins to realize there may be more children, and grandchildren currently live in beneath the surface than even he could possibly comprehend. California, but have resided in numerous states and traveled throughout the world. McCollister, a member of the swim team at Catawba, majored in Writing. After Catawba, he attended graduate school at Northeastern University in Boston and earned two master’s de- Patrick Parr ’03 grees – one in accounting and the other in business administra- authored “The Seminarian: Martin Luther tion. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio, and works as an accountant. King, Jr. Comes of Age” (Chicago Review Press) that was released on April 1, 2018. The book, available through Amazon, is The Rev. Galen Hahn ’69 exclusively about King’s years in seminary of Thomasville, N.C., has written a book in his retirement, (1948-1951). Patrick, a Literature major “Finding My Field,” that he published in September of 2018. at Catawba with an emphasis in Creative The book is based on Hahn’s summer experiences as a Writing, currently lives overseas with his wife Catawba undergraduate student who ministered to migrant and works as an author and lecturer. His farm workers who came from Belle Glade, Fla., to Frederick, website is www.patrickparr.com. Md., to help harvest and process peas, beans, and corn. Copies of his book are available by contacting him directly at [email protected]. Angela L. Vann ’81 has published three eBooks. Her latest, “Spring 2018 Ready-To-Wear Fashion

Shows Are Over! Now What?”, was Sylvia Stephens Grooms ’86 recently wrote her first book titled “Do It Now Anytime, published in January 2018. She is Anywhere.” The Christian book is available on Amazon. employed as a personal development trainer and coach, online stylist, blogger and accessories designer. Contact her As we receive news from alumni who have at [email protected]. published books, we will share the information on the Catawba College website at Catawba.edu/authors.

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INCREDIBLE SEASON ENDS IN NCAA FIRST ROUND

JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. – in the National Championship last year.” One of the youngest teams in the South Catawba women’s soccer first NCAA Despite the final tally, Catawba allowed Atlantic Conference, the Indians lose appearance in 10 years ended with a just 12 shots by the Lady Eagles, who two players from this year’s roster and loss November 10th. averages nearly 21 a contest. It equals will turn their attention towards spring the second fewest attempts this season. ball in preparation for the program’s 30th The Indians finished the campaign with The Indians held them to the same season, which kicks off August 2019. a record of 13-6-0 after a 3-0 loss number last Friday in the South at McCown Field against No. 14 Carson- Atlantic Conference semifinals. Newman, who improved to 15-4-0. I have never been “It is exciting and fun,” Brown said. a part of a team “That was a tough one,” Head Coach “They are motivated and ready for it. like this. There is a lot Nick Brown said. “I thought we played I think if I said practice tomorrow of love on this team. well in pockets but obviously it wasn’t – they would be like let’s go.” Shelby Thompson, enough. We understand why they were Catawba’s senior goal keeper

Catawba’s Assistant Coach Tharon Drake is First NCAA Blind Swim Coach in Nation recommendations for swimming athletes with a Tharon Drake might not be able to see, disability. In addition to Drake’s coaching duties, but he sure can swim and coach. Drake, a member he is actively preparing for Tokyo 2020. of Team USA and the United States Paralympic National Team, holds 13 current American records and has earned gold and silver medals in recent “As a campus community, we’re looking international competitions. He joined Catawba forward to cheering Tharon on when College this academic year as an Assistant he competes in the 2020 Paralympic Swim Coach and is already teaching members Games,” Sever shared. of Catawba’s swim team how much more to competitive swimming there is than meets the eye. Drake, a native of Hobbs, N.M., competes in the S11 classification for blind swimmers. He won silver Drake is the first NCAA blind swim coach in the medals in the 400 freestyle and the 100 breast at nation. He has the extraordinary ability to provide the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games. He took gold in technical feedback, racing splits, and stroke the 400 free and the 100 breast, and won a silver analysis just like other coaches. Catawba swim in the 200 individual medley at the 2017 World team members have been amazed that Drake can Para Swimming Championships in Mexico City. so accurately analyze and interpret their swimming techniques and discern traits as well or better than most sighted coaches. In spring 2018, 437 student-athletes “Tharon has really stirred the pot for everyone from Catawba’s athletic teams since he joined us,” explained Catawba’s Head collectively earned an Swim Coach Mike Sever. “His is a great story about overall 3.28 GPA. creating access and dialog. For us, it all began with the question: ‘What if your coach was blind?’”

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save the date MARCH 15, 2019 2018 2019 NOON LUNCHEON Peeler Crystal Lounge

1st time special fundraising event to help all Catawba Women’s Athletics FOR MORE INFO CONTACT celebrating 42 years JEFF CHILDRESS of commitment, excellence, 704.637.4265 & helping graduate [email protected] champions

For those who love Catawba College Football and Basketball, but who couldn’t make it to the games, the broadcast of some of 2018 games has been a boon.

Football games were broadcast on the following media outlets, with the games being aired on a same day delay in some markets:

WAXN-TV, Channel 64 (Channel 50 Digital) get access – Charlotte, NC (airing all Catawba College to people & programs that make Football games live) Catawba Athletics great by offering outstanding benefits which secure you Cox Sports Television in Cleveland, Ohio; as part of the Catawba Chiefs Club. New Orleans, LA; San Diego, CA; Las Vegas, NV; Providence, RI: Phoenix, AZ; Tucson, AZ; Macon, GA; and Baton Rouge, LA

NBC Sports – Chicago, IL

Viewers could visit CoxSportsTV.com for respective markets, NBCSportsChicago.com and websites of other outlets to find Catawba Indians Football broadcast game times.

While the broadcast schedule for select Catawba Men’s Basketball games is still Join The Chiefs Club & enjoy all the benefits! coming together, the production crew shared these outlets where Catawba fans can tune . . in for the games, noting that some of these 704 6374265 may be aired on a delay: www.catawba.edu/chiefsclub Cox Sports Television Soul of the South Network MASN (which games TBD)

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at the Battalion level. These WSAR teams were in great demand during the recent 1966 flooding created by Hurricane Florence. 1971 For his service with the SCSG, Charles has Russell Allen Hatfield shares that received three Humanitarian Service Awards R. Payton Warren is retired and has he retired as Rector of the Tazewell County and two Individual Achievement awards. moved to a new address in Wilmington, Cluster of Episcopal Parishes at the end Charles has 31 years of reserve and active N.C. Friends may contact him at payton- of 2016 and has moved back to Tazewell, duty experience as a Marine Corps Officer. [email protected]. Va. Friends may contact him at fatherruss@ He commanded USMC units at all ranks up yahoo.com. to Colonel to include ground and aviation supply, combat service support elements, logistics at the battalion, regiment and divi- 1972 sion level and Command and Staff College, 1968 Before retiring from higher education in 2013, he served as the Executive Director of the National Robotics Training Center a Division of Florence-Darlington Technical College (FDTC) for seven years. 1969 Marsha Kessler writes that after retir- Charles W. Faure shares that after ing in 2010, she returned to graduate school living in half a dozen states and one foreign and in May 2017, earned an M.A. degree country, he has moved to North Carolina to in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers retire. He has been living in Hendersonville of Other Languages) from the University of for just over two years now and is “LOVING Maryland Baltimore County. She works as a everything about it!” He sends “Regards to part-time instructor at Frederick Community Dr. Charles T. Muse, Sr., was everyone and come and visit!” faure638@ College and loves the work. “Each class recently appointed as the first Commander gmail.com. I leave happier and more energetic than of the 1st Civic Support Bridge and Com- when I arrived. The students are wonderful mander of Troops for the South Carolina Joanne Deitch Popovich and and I feel like my efforts contribute not only State Guard (SCSG). COL Muse reports husband Bob have moved, after 43 years, to their well-being, but to the well-being of to the Deputy Commander of the SCSG to a new address. Friends from Catawba my community and ultimately our country. with the three Ready Response Battalions would be welcome to visit them when in After almost six decades, I have found my under his command. Their mission is rapid the Pittsburgh area. Their address is 3050 passion! And in the same spirit, I took up response to and provides support for disas- Derby Court, North Huntingdon, PA. 15642 horseback riding lessons in fall ‘17. So ters in the state of South Carolina. Previous- or contact Joanne by email at jdpopo469@ far, I haven’t fallen...fingers crossed! I love ly, COL Muse stood up the first Swift Water yahoo.com. Catawba -- 46 years later I am still grateful Search and Rescue Teams (WSAR) for the education I received there and the friendships I made. Please feel free to get in touch!” Contact her at fiddler82050@ 34 gmail.com.

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Theatre Alumna Honored 1960s Close-Up

Dr. Susan Vick ’67 was honored on October 15, 2018 as an Outstanding Drama Teacher by the New England Theatre Conference. Susan, who recently retired after 37 years as director of the drama and theatre programs at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), received the 2018 Leonidas A. Nickole Award from the New England Theatre Conference at the organization’s annual Excellence in Theatre Awards program. The award is given for outstanding teaching in the field of drama.

She once recalled that she produced her first play at the age of 5 at her home in the Blue Ridge Mountains Dr. Susan Vick ’67 of North Carolina. She graduated from Catawba Col- lege and toured with the National Children’s Theatre before becoming the first woman to earn an MFA in of acting awards, more than 20 directing milestones, and a budding directing from Southern Methodist University. She held career as a playwright followed. She joined the WPI faculty in 1981 after a number of academic posts, including serving as having achieved early success in the theatre. acting director of theatre at Bowdoin College, before returning to school to become the first woman to earn She was honored by Catawba in 2010 when she was inducted into a PhD in theatre at the University of Illinois. A number the Blue Masque Hall of Fame.

Albert Martin Tilley shares that he First United Methodist Church in Cary, N.C. has been really enjoying retirement for over Bible Outreach Ministries of N.C. (www. two years now. After extensive travel during disciplebibleoutreach.org) has established 1978 his 44 years in the textile sales business, a scholarship in honor Bill, recognizing his he and wife Margaret tend to stay closer to many years in prison ministry. Bill and wife home in Oak Ridge, N.C., these days where Polly will continue to live in Cary, N.C., and they enjoy fishing trips to the beach and golf Bill plans to pursue his interests in teach- trips to various courses. He sends “Best ing and biblical storytelling, while Polly will wishes to all in the Class of ‘72!” continue her work as a marketing consultant and pursue her interest in art. Bill and Polly enjoy sports, music, and walking their dog, Gracie Jo. Bill would love to hear 1973 from friends and can be contacted at [email protected]. Jim Mallinson and Carla Hoffmann Mallinson ’74 moved The Honorable Joe Wild in September 2017 from Salisbury, where will be retiring at the end of 2018 after 30 they had lived almost since graduation, to 1975 years on the bench in the State of Florida. the Raleigh area to be closer to family. The Mallinsons have two children and three Randy Loeb writes: “Seven years ago, grandchildren. I was the second employee with my current employer, ARCpoint Labs, and today, we 1979 are the third largest independent, medical testing lab in the U.S. Given the responsi- Martha “Beth” 1974 bility to grow this company, I’ve had a great Holmes Sheldon time putting my ‘stamp’ on it over the last of Buford, Ga., is em- several years. Recently, my wife, Gail, and I ployed as a Props Mas- relocated from Greenville, S.C. to Wilming- ter by Sony Pictures in ton, N.C. as we wind down our careers and Atlanta, Ga., She shares: wanted to be closer to the beach. I’d love “Thanks primarily to the to hear from folks or even have you stop by excellent education I if you are heading to the beaches of N.C.” received at Cat-U (McC, Reach Randy at 910-408-1129 or by email Parkie, Sinnott, Epp) I have been gainfully at [email protected]. employed in Hollywood, and now Atlanta, for over 35 years. ‘Living the dream,’ as Reverend Dr. H. William “Bill” we say in the biz. On a new show called Green recently retired after 41 years of “We Here Now” for Sony. Please watch ministry in the United Methodist Church. and thanks for helping keep my Catawba For the past 29 years, he has served as the dream alive. #Dramafreaks.” Executive Pastor of Congregational Care at

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1970s Close-Up ty on December 15, 2017. He would love to hear from Catawba classmates. Reach him by email at [email protected]. 2000 Tabitha “Bitha” Mouhot Bateman continues to reside in Jubail, Saudi Arabia where she has been lived for the past four years with husband Lane and son Jackson, 13. Friends may contact her at [email protected].

Sean Hurley recently got engaged to Holly Newcomb on August 17, 2018 and Richard Shields ’73 the two are planning their wedding. Sean also started a new position as a Territory Alumnus reconnects with Catawba during visit Development Manager with Unilever in the Metro Philadelphia market. Richard Shields ’73 made a trip to Catawba last March to reconnect with classmate Bob Setzer ’73 and former Catawba Dean of Students Bill Hall ’66. He said he “expected to just pick up Bill and Bob and head to lunch,” but was overwhelmed with his Catawba welcome. “Y’all really made my day,” he 2001 wrote. “That’s what has always made Catawba great!” Fredrick Corriher, III, a wine im- porter, was inspired by Casey Davidson, the owner of Toadfish Outfitters in Charleston, Lori Anne “LA” Sword of Indian S.C., to create a wine that could generate Trail, N.C., last spring played the role of money to help S.C. coastal ecology. Toad- 1981 Camila in “In the Heights” at Seacoast Rep- fish makes and sells oyster knives, shrimp ertory Theatre. cleaners and fishing rods, but its main mis- Julia Gilkerson King, a counselor at sion is to use those products to raise money Waterman Elementary School in Harrison- for replenishing oyster reef habitat. Corriher burg, Va., was one of the two recipients of thought Davidson’s story was inspiring and the 2018 Lucy F. Simms Educator of the 1991 had an idea to make a wine that would sup- Year Award given last May by the Harrison- port the same mission. On a trip to France, burg City Public Schools. Julia, who was Corriher searched for a Muscadet wine in selected as the 2018 Teacher of the Year the Loire Valley; Muscadet is a white wine for her school, was then in the running for that is known for going well with seafood, the Simms Award. Julia is the daughter of particularly oysters. He thought a Muscadet two Catawba alumni -- her father, Cecil would be the right type of wine to create to benefit South Carolina’s coast since people , and her late mother, F. Gilkerson ’49 might order it to go with oysters and get a -- the sister Gay West Gilkerson ’51 subtle lesson about the stress the oyster’s of Catawba alumna, Pamela “Pam” habitat is under. Gilkerson Setzer ’74, and sister- in-law of Catawba alumnus, Robert In France, Corriher met winemakers Guy . “Bob” S. Setzer ’73 Emily Graves Kaltenmark was and Jean-Luc Ollivier, who agreed to awarded the “Fairfax County [Va.] Out- work with him to produce a boutique wine

standing School Based Leader” for the called Oysterman, which made its debut 2017-18 school year. This is her 22nd year in Charleston in late August of this year. Cor- 1986 working in education and her eighth year riher also partnered with Toadfish to donate as an Administrator. She is employed as a portion of the proceeds to programs like Jennifer Eyre Smith, husband Travis an assistant principal at the Fairfax County the Department of Natural Resource’s oyster Dunnington, and their three children moved Public Schools. recycling program. For each case sold, to Dayton, Ohio more than a year ago to be the two say it will fund the replanting of 10 close to her husband’s family. She would square feet of oyster beds. love to hear from any fellow Catawba alumni in the area. Reach Jennifer at Jenotype@ 1992 Christopher Morgan of Kernersville, yahoo.com. N.C. reports that after 19 years of courtship, Trevor Allen was appointed Director he and Mary Brown ’00 “FINALLY tied the knot in a ceremony held on the beach in of the N.C. Justice Academy on April 24, Gulfport, Miss., on Saturday, April 7, 2018!” 2017. He received the Master of Justice Ad- 1989 ministration degree from Methodist Universi-

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Connor P. Coleman is the founder Ross Scallan and his wife, the former and principal of Resiliency Lands, a private- Carrie Wollaston, welcomed a new addition 2002 and ranch- land management advisory group to their family with the birth of Grady James operating in the Roaring Fork Valley near As- Scallan on July 27, 2018. The new baby John E. Meeker, II married wife Ash- pen, Colorado since 2016. In 2012, Connor joined brother Winston Scallan who was born leigh on Sept. 29, 2012. The couple lives in moved to Colorado from North Carolina after March 18, 2016. The family is living in Fort Durham, N.C. and have a daughter, Daphne completing both a Master of Environmental Wainwright, Alaska, where Ross works as a Lucille Meeker, who was born on Oct. 27, Management degree and a Master of Forest- U.S. Army nurse. 2016. John works in team sales at Eurosport/ ry degree at Duke University. Soccer.com. Carolyn Kramkowski, a music teach- Angela “Angie” (Stancar) John- er at Shaw Visual and Performing Arts School son and husband Adrian welcomed their in the Saint Louis [Missouri] Public Schools, third child, Oskar Patrick Johnson, on April 2, was the coordinator of One Voice event in 2018. Oskar joins big sisters Ella (2008) and November 2017 that featured 65 students Freya (2012). The family lives in London, UK, from across the district who gathered to where Angela is Head of English at South- perform as the St. Louis Metro 8 Elementary bank International School. Honor Choir. 2004

Jessica Taige writes: “Life has been a roller coaster. While pursuing my acting career in NYC, I started a small handcrafted peanut butter cup company, Jessie’s Nutty Cups, never thinking that this would be my new career path. What started as a little side Terri Lombardo Paul celebrated her thing in 2014 has flourished into a successful 22nd wedding anniversary with husband growing business. Jessie’s Nutty Cups are MArc, her 25th year of owning her store, now sold throughout NYC at a variety of Wanderings, in Havana, and her 27th year stores including Dean & Deluca and Dylan’s Kerri Conley married Angel Gonzales, of living in Tallahassee, Florida. In March of Candy Bar, and we recently completed our Sr. on September 10, 2016 in Lancaster, Pa. 2018, she also opened a coffee shop in her biggest order yet heading to Japan!” Reach Kerri currently resides in York, Pa., with her store called Poppy’s. She writes that she “will out to Jessica at [email protected]. husband and daughter Allura Gonzales. She treat any visiting Catawba classmates to a has owned and operated her own photogra- free cup of coffee!” phy business, Majestic Wonders Photogra- phy, since 2012. 2010 2006 Lindsey Burch Griffin earned her Masters of Arts degree in Human Services with a concentration in Career Counseling from Lenoir Rhyne University in December 2017. She is employed at High Point Univer- sity as Student Success Coach.

Amanda “Amy” Elisabeth 2007 Holloway Inman and husband John welcomed their second child, Mary Parker Kendra Deal Owens earned her “Molly” Inman, on July 5, 2018. Molly joins Bachelor of Business Administration degree older sister, Caroline Elisabeth Inman, born in Catawba’s evening program and now attended the Brody on October 11, 2015. Amy spent eight years owns her own business, Embellish Boutique, Patrick B. Dennis School of Medicine at East Carolina Univer- on Active Duty in the Navy and is currently a in China Grove, N.C., with the help of her sity where he earned his medical degree. Lieutenant Commander in the Reserves. She husband, Jason Owens ’03, and her He and wife Faith welcomed their daughter, and her family live in Jacksonville, Fla., where parents, Ken ’75 and Lisa Deal. Jason is a Madelyn, just six days before Patrick found her husband is a P-8 pilot in the Navy. lieutenant at the Rowan County Sheriff’s De- partment and has served there for 17 years. out he would be completing his residency at the Medical University of South Carolina. He is currently in his second year of general surgery residency. He and his wife love

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1990s Close-Up Jowita 2011 2013 Sokolowska ’97 Rebecca Lucille “Lucy” Scott Emily Pearson became Emily Pearson and husband Stephen Davis ’15 Johnson when she married Kristofer John- make their home in Pikeville, Kentucky now, son on October 13, 2018! where Stephen coaches football and Lucy continues to work in education. Lucy will be pursuing her Ph.D. in the spring. Lucy and Stephen are parents of Magnolia, who 2014 turned two on July 26. Jacquelyn Loy of Fort Myers, Fla., was the costume designer for the world premiere of the play, “Refugee,” adapted by Eric Coble and based on the best-selling ’97 International Alumna novel by Alan Gratz. The debut perfor- Visits Catawba mance was at Florida Repertory Theatre Jowita Sokolowska ’97, Catawba graduate on September 15, where Jacquelyn is employed as Costume Designer and and Catawba Sports Hall of Fame 2010 Interim Costume Shop Manager. member, made the trip all the way from Belgium in July to help support the Chiefs Club and Catawba Athletics. Jowita was a standout basketball player during her time at 2015 Catawba. While on campus, she reconnect- ed the Chiefs Club Director Jeff Childress. Kelli Ferguson Starrett and hus- Emiziah Everwine ‘15 and Ana K. band Ryan welcomed their first baby, Ben- Cooke (now Ana K. Everwine) jamin, on December 15, 2017. Kelli writes: 2011 Close-Up ‘12 were married April 22, 2017 “We can’t wait to tell him all about Catawba. on Seabrook Island, S.C. He will certainly grow up around campus whether the disc golf course, Lessons and Brandon Theo Carols, or football games.”

Sutton 2011 Bonnie Williams was married to Justin Browne on August 27, 2018 in Corolla, N.C., on the Outer Banks. 2012 Antoinette “Toni” Crough shares that she is currently living in Los Angeles, Calif. She has been playing drums in the premier 90s party band called Saved By is employed as The 90s for five years now. The band plays Elizabeth Howard Sustainability Outreach Coordinator at in Southern California, Arizona, and Nevada Catawba’s Center for the Environment. She and kicked off 2018 by playing the House shares that one of the best memories she A former All-SAC & All-Region of Blues in Las Vegas! The band played at has as an undergrad at Catawba College defensive lineman for Catawba, has the famous Roxy Theater on August 17th in is becoming SCUBA certified in Bonaire. Los Angeles. Toni also had the opportunity spent the past seven years playing While an undergrad, she spent the summer to record at Fave Grohl’s famous studio Professional Football. He reports that of her junior year interning at the Outer 606, formerly known as Sound City. When he has had some private NFL & CFL work- Banks Center for Wildlife Education as a she’s not playing drums, Toni works at outs and played Professional Arena Football Wildlife Educator and the summer of her Kobalt Music as the music librarian within for the last seven years. He has played for senior year, she interned at Biosphere 2 the Synch Department. “I’m basically the The Richmond Raiders, mini-camp with in Arizona as part of the National Science ears of our department; listening, organizing Foundation-funded Research Experiences The Philadelphia Soul, The Lehigh Valley and ingesting ALL of the music that comes for Undergraduates program. Steelhawks, The Pittsburgh Power, The in from our writers/ clients,” she writes. Triangle Torch, and is playing in his second “Being able to play music and work within season with The High Country Grizzlies, the music business has truly been the best which is located in Boone, N.C. During the of both worlds and a dream come true! entire process, Brandon has been a father Catawba’s music education was invaluable to his now 11-year-old daughter, Taki’yah in helping me pursue my musical dreams Marie Sutton. after graduation.”

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2014 Close-Up Olivia Myers 2014 Biology major with Chemistry and Environmental Science Minors Graduates from Vet School.

Olivia Myers ’14, who entered North Carolina State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine in the fall of 2014, graduated from there in May 2018 with a doctorate of veterinary medicine degree. Her studies focused on food animal medicine.

Olivia has since joined a small animal hospital, Pamlico Animal Hospital in Washington, N.C., and is also working with Livestock Veterinary Services in Kinston, N.C. “In vet school I learned a lot about small animal medicine and small animal surgeries so I didn’t want to lose those skills, and, I feel like there are good opportunities in the swine field.”” she explained about being employed in two different jobs.

A two-sport athlete at Catawba, Olivia says she felt prepared for veterinary school even though the work was on a completely different level and she had to study a lot more. “I had really good study habits, knew how to study, and where to find information from my time at Catawba College, and that was what I needed at [NC] State to move up in a different academic level.

I graduated with honors from Vet School. I graduated Phi Zeta and there were quite a few people in my class who went to bigger institutions who didn’t graduate with honors, and I think that speaks to the education I was able to receive at Catawba. – Olivia Myers

2015 Close-Up Sloan Kessler 2 015 Kessler Earns Law Degree

Catawba Alumna Sloan Kessler ’15 recently graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Law and passed the Minnesota Bar exam. She now lives in Minneapolis, Minn., and works for the State of Minnesota Department of Veteran Affairs. Sloan was an Environmental Steward at Catawba and a four-year varsity athlete on the tennis team. She was also the female recipient of the Whitener Award in her graduating class.

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IN MEMORIAM

We are the keepers of the memories. A sacred trust given by one who has journeyed on.

– Glenda Stansbury

1930s Juanita Fisher Lagg ’46 Jean Fisher McCombs ’46 Clara Bowers Lowder ’38 Helen Clarine Ingold ’47 Lois Safley Miller ’47 1940s Martha “Patty” Zimmerman Seay ’47 E. Lee Cain ’49 M. Lamar Dorton ’48 Virginia Kluttz English ’40 Albert H. “Tuck” Gudger ’48 C. Robert Benson, Jr. ’42 June Skeen Hunt ’48 Gilbert B. Benson ’42 R. Paul Propst ’48 John E. (Jack) Aller ’43 Lois Elizabeth Shoe Sechriest ’48 Eleanor Shouse Burge ’43 Charlotte Hawkins Adams ’49 Dwight W. Holshouser ’43 Rachel Kepley Edmiston ’49 Dr. D. Clyde Young ’43 Grady Thomas “Tom” Rabe, Jr. ’49 Collin Choate Grubb ’44 Mary Ross Sherrin Woosley ’49 Mamie Gemayel Williams ’44 Nell Bruner ’45 1950s Lorraine Robertson Dobson ’46 Fred Thurston Bowman ’50

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Thomas “Joe” Lyerly ’50 Donald G. Goodnight ’61 R. Earl Sides ’50 Alice D. Madden ’61 James Bernard Slate ’50 Glenn E. Smith, Sr. ’61 Henry Cole Tomlinson ’50 Douglas G. Rangeley, Jr. ’62 Larry Philip Graham ’51 J. Stewart Smith, Sr. ’62 Edward F. Greene ’51 Danial M. Hogue ’63 We are the keepers Rev. Harry A. Kissinger ’51 Karen Eide Rawling ’63 Peggy Kleckner Mills ’51 John “Johnny” Franklin Smith ’64 of the memories. Jack Stewart Ward ’51 Carolyn June Garman ’65 A sacred trust given Robert M. Ward ’51 William S. Eubanks ’66 Donald L. Sharpe ’52 Anne Skiles Humphrey ’66 by one who has Russell G. Clark ’54 William J. Miller, Jr. ’67 journeyed on. James E. Epting, Sr. ’54 Mills Yoder Bridges ’68 R. Elbert Holt, Sr. ’54 G. Darrell Parks ’69 Marinell Morrison ’54 James Wesley Ragan ’54 1970s Joy Barbee ’55 Mary Anne Laningham ’70 David Baker Hood ’55 Toni Coggins Hill ’71 Fred B. Duncan ’56 Helen Pendleton Leavy ’71 Leonard K. Kruea ’56 Carlotta Rose Seagraves Medford ’71 Millicent Parsons Sofley ’56 Ronald E. Funderburk ’72 Nancy Haithcock South ’56 Susan Antrim Webb ’72 Venus Beck Wallace ’56 Thomas H. Putnam, III ’74 John R. Braswell, Jr. ’57 Mark W. Alexander ’75 Robert “Bob” Lee ’57 Janice Bradshaw ’75 Patty June Ludwig Jung ’57 Randy Loeb ’75 Harold Dean Shelton ’57 Norman C. Chadwick ’78 M. Harold Witherspoon ’57 Robin Heald Cox ’78 James “Jim” D. Cline ’58 Vance H. Jones ’78 Reece R. Snyder ’58 Martha Jean Benson Graham ’59 1980s Donald R. Hunt ’59 Deborah A. Hullender ’83 1960s 1990s Reba Fincher Edwards ’60 Stephen F. Pring ’92 Hilda Haithcock Miller ’60 Larry Scott Young ’94 Charles H. Glover ’61

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CATAWBA MOURNS PASSING OF COACH SAM MOIR

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Legendary and beloved Catawba College Basketball Coach Sam Moir died October 20, 2018 at the V.A. Medical Center in Salisbury. He was 94. His funeral service was held in Omwake-Dearborn Chapel on campus on October 27.

Moir, a member of eight halls of fame, coached almost 1,000 Catawba College, the NAIA, South Atlantic Conference, games at Catawba during 34 seasons between 1960 and Salisbury-Rowan County, Oak Ridge Academy, Mt. Airy and 1994 with a record of 546-399. Under his leadership, Catawba Surry County, N.C. He was honored by Appalachian State won seven championships, including NAIA District titles in University with a Distinguished Alumni Award. Catawba 1982 and 1983. Both of those winning teams made it to the honored him with its Trustee Award in 1986, and a scholarship NAIA National Tournament in Kansas City where the 1983’s was established in his honor at Catawba in 1997. team 29-4 record remains the best in Catawba’s school history. But despite the tributes and honors that Moir received, It was thanks in large measure to Moir’s leadership and he was proudest of his former players and the lives and influence that the Abernethy Physical Education Center careers they pursued after college. and its Goodman Gym were constructed and opened on campus in 1970. A native of Francisco, near Mt. Airy, N.C., Moir was born Sept. 13, 1924. His college career was interrupted by 30 months of In 1971, he started a three-day Christmas Classic, military service in the U.S. Army Air Force during World War a high school holiday tournament for Rowan and Davie II. He was awarded an Air Medal and a Purple Heart for his counties’ boys and girls’ teams. That crowd-drawing service in the Pacific campaign. When he returned from the event was renamed in his honor in 1996, and remains an war, he graduated from Appalachian State University with his anticipated holiday staple in the local community. bachelor’s degree in 1949 and master’s degree in 1950. He also played basketball and baseball for Appalachian The basketball court at Goodman Gym was named during his time there. in Moir’s honor after his retirement, as is the Catawba men’s basketball most valuable player award, given annually Before coming to Catawba in 1960, Moir enjoyed a 10-year to the team’s top player. coaching career at Mt. Airy High School. His basketball coach- ing record there was 179-74, including a state championship Moir, who worked at Catawba for 34 years, received many and a perfect 25-0 record during his last season in 1960. accolades throughout his life. He is a member of the North Moir was predeceased by wife, Betty, who died in 2001. Carolina Sports Hall of Fame, as well as the halls of fame for He is survived by sons Mike and Ron.

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Dr. Richard “Dick” Allen Former Catawba College Communication Reitz, a Professor Department faculty member, Professor Emeritus of Modern Michael “Mike” Ashley Hogewood Foreign Languages, of Greensboro, N.C., died September 5 died on June 27, 2018 in a few days shy of his 64th birthday. Cambridge, Massachusetts. He began teaching at Catawba in 2015, He was 80 years old. A memorial and although he was not teaching at service was held for him on the Catawba during the current academic Catawba campus on October 5th. year, Hogewood, a long-time sports broadcaster, provided on-air talent Reitz taught Spanish and English at Catawba for the TV broadcast of one of College for almost 40 years. Shortly after joining Catawba’s 2018 opening football games. the Catawba faculty, he met his future wife, Sandy, at a mixer hosted by several academic colleagues. Hogewood had worked at WBTV in Charlotte, The two lived most of their lives in Salisbury. at WBBH in Ft. Myers, Fla., and at WBRC in Birmingham, Ala., where he hosted the weekly A native of Kansas, Reitz was born on September Bear Bryant Show. He was sports director at 14, 1937. He earned his bachelor’s degree in WGHP in High Point and WFMY News 2 in Foreign Language form the University of Kansas Greensboro for 14 years. He began doing live before serving in the U.S. Army for several years. events as a freelance broadcaster in 2001 He later did his post-graduate work at the Univer- and his distinctive voice was recognized by sity of Kentucky and earned his Doctorate in many fans of the ACC. He brought his skills Philosophy with a focus on Spanish. He taught and life experiences into the classroom, at the University of North Carolina and at Virginia teaching at his alma mater Lenoir Rhyne Military Institute before settling down at Catawba. University, Catawba, and was serving as an adjunct teaching faculty at Pfeiffer He was predeceased by his wife in November University at the time of his death. of 2017. Survivors include son Allen and two grandchildren. Survivors include his mother, wife, a son, a daughter, and three grandchildren.

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